Ms Alfonso-Royals said, “Many Nigerian marriage and divorce events are not recorded in formal government databases. When they are, record-keeping is poor to non-existent.”
Mr Najibullah, from 2007 to 2009, served as a Taliban commander in Afghanistan.
The UN Refugee Agency said on Thursday that global refugee numbers fell by three per cent to 41.6 million in 2025.
The UK will sanction institutions that fail to recruit responsibly under new sponsorship rules.
UNICEF described the situation as a looming dual crisis unless current restrictions on girls’ education and women’s employment are lifted.
The report warns that forced displacement is compounding the crisis.
According to the ICRC, approximately 136,000 people, representing around 17,000 households in the districts of Kamdesh and Barg-e-Matal, have faced acute food shortages.
About 4.2 million people in Afghanistan will require emergency shelter and non-food items throughout 2026.
Counter-narcotics police in eastern Afghanistan have destroyed more than 100 kilogrammes of illegal drugs.
The Afghan government launched the first nationwide polio vaccination campaign for 2026 on Monday to cover around 12.6 million children under five in the post-war nation.
