Afghanistan, Nov. 8 -- Khaama Press marked its 16th anniversary on Saturday at an event where its editor-in-chief, Mansoor Nekmal, spoke to reporters from several Afghan media outlets.
The agency has continued to publish news, reports, interviews and analysis in English, Persian (Dari) and Pashto through the collapse of the former government in August 2021 and the restrictions that followed.
The anniversary comes as Afghanistan's media sector continues to shrink. More than half of the roughly 620 outlets operating before 2021 have since stopped working, according to Afghan journalists' associations cited by the International Federation of Journalists, and the number of women working in Afghan media has fallen by about three quarters. Repo...