AFGHANISTAN-SOCIETY-KITE

An Afghan youth holds a kite to be flown during sunset on the outskirts of Jalalabad, Nangarhar province on March 24, 2014. Some nine million Afghans or 36 percent of the population are living in “absolute poverty” while another 37 percent live barely above the poverty line, according to a UN report. AFP PHOTO/Noorullah Shirzada