On September 15, 2025, the Taliban de facto authorities announced an internet ban across large areas of northern Afghanistan.

Have you ever experienced the pain of stepping on scattered LEGO blocks in the middle of the night? In my case, the pain (or expletives) that followed were often muffled by the desire to ensure that ...

Nearly 70,000 women in Afghanistan tune in to Radio Femme – an all-female-run online and traditionally broadcast radio ...

These digital tools can help address the challenges with basic education in Nigeria, especially in public primary schools and the large number of out-of-school children.

But all that was taken away when the Taliban swept into power in 2021. They banned girls over the age of 12 from getting an ...

When the Taliban recently cut off the Internet and phone networks across Afghanistan, millions of women and girls were silenced. For those with ...

A new push to cut nationwide access to the digital world is taking Afghanistan back to the isolationist extremes of decades past ...

Maryam has worked as an online interpreter since the Taliban banned women from most jobs in Afghanistan. But her livelihood is under threat after the hard-line Islamist group last week shut down ...

Afghans have taken to the streets to rejoice in the restoration of internet and telecom services after the Taliban government ...

A telecommunications blackout and restrictions on social media have further isolated Afghans who rely on the internet as a ...