About 8,000 recently returned Afghans have rushed to apply for one of 1,800 chances to work in Qatar after the wealthy Gulf state expanded a deal with Kabul, Afghanistan’s labour ministry told AFP on Thursday.<\/p>\n
More than four million Afghans have been deported or pressured to leave Iran and Pakistan since September 2023, according to the UN’s International Organization for Migration.<\/p>\n
Afghanistan is facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, the United Nations says. Afghans forced to leave neighbouring countries have returned to high unemployment rates and a fragile economy struggling to recover from four decades of conflict.<\/p>\n
Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs spokesman Samiullah Ibrahimi said the 8,000 applications had been received since Wednesday.<\/p>\n
He said the positions were “specifically for those who returned or were forced to leave Iran and Pakistan” in the past two years.<\/p>\n
The jobs ranged from management roles to engineering, hospitality and work as mechanics.<\/p>\n
They are an expansion of a deal announced in July to open 3,100 jobs for Afghans in Qatar, for which 15,500 applied in the hope of gaining work outside the country.<\/p>\n
Registration was open in Kabul, Herat, Kandahar and Nangarhar provinces, home to most of the country’s major cities.<\/p>\n
Hopeful applicants had to provide proof they had returned to Afghanistan in the past two years, Ibrahimi said, and had to pay 100 Afghanis ($1.45) to register.<\/p>\n
Between 1.5 and 2.1 million Afghans came back this year alone, according to UN agencies, which warned the influx would exacerbate the country’s endemic poverty.<\/p>\n
Afghanistan’s unemployment rate of more than 13 percent affects nearly a quarter of young people aged 15 to 29, according to the World Bank.<\/p>\n
Those who do have work often support large, extended families on stretched salaries, with many Afghans relying on money sent from relatives abroad.<\/p>\n
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