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Anti-polio campaign launched in E Afghanistan

STORY: Anti-polio campaign launched in E Afghanistan DATELINE: July 10, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:03 LOCATION: JALALABAD, Afghanistan CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of a health worker giving doses to children 2. various of health workers organizing children to receive vaccinations 3. various of children receiving vaccinations 4. various of a health worker giving doses to children STORYLINE: Afghan health authorities launched an anti-polio campaign in east Afghanistan's Nangarhar, Laghman, Kunar and Nuristan provinces on Saturday, provincial health official Hakam Khan Gulabzai said. More than 835,000 children under five would receive the immunization vaccine during the four-day campaign, the official added. The campaign to immunize children against the crippling disease was launched amid an increase in polio cases in Afghanistan's eastern regions as five polio cases have been registered in Nangarhar province so far this year. Afghan Public Health Ministry spokesperson Sharafat Zaman Amar said the Afghan

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AFGHANISTAN-NANGARHAR-ANTI-POLIO-VACCINATION

(230709) -- NANGARHAR, July 9, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A health worker gives a dose of polio vaccine to a child during an anti-polio campaign in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, July 9, 2023. Afghan health authorities launched an anti-polio campaign in east Afghanistan's Nangarhar, Laghman, Kunar and Nuristan provinces on Saturday. (Photo by Aimal Zahir/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-NANGARHAR-ANTI-POLIO-VACCINATION

(230709) -- NANGARHAR, July 9, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A health worker gives a dose of polio vaccine to a child during an anti-polio campaign in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, July 9, 2023. Afghan health authorities launched an anti-polio campaign in east Afghanistan's Nangarhar, Laghman, Kunar and Nuristan provinces on Saturday. (Photo by Aimal Zahir/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-NANGARHAR-ANTI-POLIO-VACCINATION

(230709) -- NANGARHAR, July 9, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A health worker gives a dose of polio vaccine to a child during an anti-polio campaign in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, July 9, 2023. Afghan health authorities launched an anti-polio campaign in east Afghanistan's Nangarhar, Laghman, Kunar and Nuristan provinces on Saturday. (Photo by Aimal Zahir/Xinhua)

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Afghan cadets commissioned to police in E. Afghanistan

STORY: Afghan cadets commissioned to police in E. Afghanistan DATELINE: Oct. 27, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:29 LOCATION: Kabul CATEGORY: POLITICS/LAW SHOTLIST: 1. various of the commencement of young Afghan police in Eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province STORYLINE: A total of 446 young Afghans have been commissioned to the National Police Force after completing a training course in the eastern Nangarhar province, commander of the training center Qari Rahmatullah said Wednesday. During the six-week training course, the new policemen learned how to behave with the people, how and when to use weapons and how to enforce law and order in society, the official said, adding the newly graduated police personnel would be deployed in the eastern Nangarhar and neighboring Laghman, Kunar and Nuristan provinces. More than 50,000 policemen have graduated from the country's 10 police training centers since the establishment of the Taliban-run caretaker government in August last year, Amin Jan Fatehullah from the Interior Mi

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AFGHANISTAN-NURISTAN-FLOOD

(220818) -- NURISTAN, Aug. 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A boy stands in front of the rubbles of houses destroyed by flood in Nuristan province, Afghanistan, Aug. 18, 2022. Heavy rain and flash flood have killed 15 people in Afghanistan's eastern Nuristan province, the state-run Bakhtar news agency reported Wednesday. (Photo by Qazafi Mal/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-NURISTAN-FLOOD

(220818) -- NURISTAN, Aug. 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Children sit on the rubbles of houses destroyed by flood in Nuristan province, Afghanistan, Aug. 18, 2022. Heavy rain and flash flood have killed 15 people in Afghanistan's eastern Nuristan province, the state-run Bakhtar news agency reported Wednesday. (Photo by Qazafi Mal/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-NURISTAN-FLOOD

(220818) -- NURISTAN, Aug. 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Children sit on the rubbles of houses destroyed by flood in Nuristan province, Afghanistan, Aug. 18, 2022. Heavy rain and flash flood have killed 15 people in Afghanistan's eastern Nuristan province, the state-run Bakhtar news agency reported Wednesday. (Photo by Qazafi Mal/Xinhua)