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Afghan women face increasing violence and repression under the Taliban after international spotlight fades

The Taliban reportedly captured 40 people in Mazar-e-Sharif, a medium-sized city in Afghanistan, at the end of January 2022. Taliban members then allegedly gang-raped eight of the women.

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UN Demands Taliban Provide Info on Two More Missing Women Activists

The United Nations has demanded the Taliban provide information on two more women activists allegedly detained by the group this week -- bringing to four the number missing this year. Since returning to power in August the Taliban have cracked down on dissent by forcefully dispersing women's rallies, detaining critics…

Asharq Al-Awsat

U.S. faces snags in bid to speed up at-risk Afghan evacuations

A lack of flights and the search for a new U.S. reception center are among the hurdles facing the White House as it races to speed up the evacuation of at-risk Afghans from their homeland, according to a senior U.S. official and others familiar with the new plan.

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U.N. has millions in Afghanistan bank, but cannot use it

The United Nations has about $135 million in the bank in Afghanistan but is unable to use it because the Taliban-run central bank cannot convert it to the afghani currency, a senior U.N. official said on Thursday.

Reuters

Afghan universities reopen with strict rules for female students

Women required to attend separate classes and follow dress code at facilities in Kandahar and Helmand as they restart classes for first time since Taliban takeover

The Guardian - UK

Counterpoint: Why shouldn’t the US lift the sanctions against the Taliban?

Following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, the U.S. Department of the Treasury froze Afghanistan Central Bank’s reserves. The Taliban is currently on the Treasury’s “Specially Designated Nationals” list.

Tribune News Service

Taliban Closer to International Recognition, Says Foreign Minister

The Taliban are inching closer towards international recognition but any concessions Afghanistan's new rulers make will be on their terms, the regime's foreign minister said in an interview with AFP. In his first interview since returning from talks with Western powers in Oslo, Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi also urged…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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U.S. advice to banks: OK to transfer aid money to Afghanistan

International banks can transfer money to Afghanistan for humanitarian purposes, and aid groups are allowed to pay teachers and healthcare workers at state-run institutions without fear of breaching sanctions on the Taliban, the United States said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Kabul bomber was on a suicide mission to India in 2017

Was deported after CIA tip-off

The Hindu

Afghan women say they wouldn't be afforded the same rights as a pregnant NZ journalist under the Taliban

Afghan women accuse the Taliban of using a pregnant, New Zealand journalist as a publicity tool to show the world they can offer women rights.

ABC News

Taliban reopen universities for Afghan women in 6 provinces

The Taliban say they have reopened public universities for women students in six of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces, a move marking a major concession to international demands by the country’s new rulers

The Independent UK

Soaring pneumonia and starvation is killing thousands of children in Afghanistan

Pneumonia cases are soaring in Afghanistan and killing children unable to access healthcare facilities, leading humanitarian organisation for children Save the Children said on Monday. Since the Taliban takeover last August, unemployment levels have exploded throughout Afghanistan, leaving parents unable to provide for their families. The direct result has been…

France 24

Afghan universities reopen with small number of women attending

Taliban has imposed many restrictions on women, but says it has no objection to education for women.

Al Jazeera

Abducted Afghan journalists released, employer says

Two Afghan journalists who disappeared this week have been released, their employer said on Wednesday, after the United Nations called on the Taliban to provide information on their whereabouts.

Reuters

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

Conversations with God: Afghan evacuees in Philly say faith sustains them amid upheaval

PHILADELPHIA — The American troops shouted over the chaos of the crowds, Ahmad said, telling him to get inside the Kabul airport while he still could.

Reuters

Afghanistan's Taliban told they can't take their guns to the funfair

Taliban fighters will no longer be allowed to carry their weapons in amusement parks in Afghanistan, the group's spokesman said on Wednesday, in what appeared to be another effort by the country's new rulers to soften their image.

Reuters

Female students join male peers as Afghan universities reopen

Afghanistan's public universities opened on Wednesday for the first time since the Taliban took over the country last year, with female students joining their male counterparts heading back to campus.

The Guardian - AU

‘Living hell’: Australia urged to ramp up Afghanistan aid as humanitarian crisis unfolds

Senators told 13.1 million children need help now and 95% of Afghans could be living in poverty by the middle of the year

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Axios

Leaked document reveals Biden’s Afghan failures

The notes shed new light on how the administration was unprepared to evacuate Afghan nationals who'd helped the U.S. against the Taliban.

The Guardian - AU

Nation records 69 Covid deaths as hospital numbers fall – as it happened

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The Independent UK

Fears Afghans in ‘desperate need’ will miss out as one-third of resettlement places filled by people already in UK

More than 6,500 Afghans in Britain granted places on new scheme that aimed to resettle 5,000 in first year

Reuters

U.N. urges Taliban to release information about missing journalists

The United Nation's mission to Afghanistan on Tuesday called on the Taliban administration to release details on the detention of two Afghan journalists who disappeared the previous day.

Al Jazeera

Qatar reaches deal with Taliban to resume evacuations: Report

Deal reported by Axios allows biweekly chartered flights and comes as US reportedly seeks to re-up Afghan resettlements.

Reuters

Qatar reaches deal with Taliban to resume evacuations - Axios

Qatar has reached an agreement with the Taliban to resume chartered evacuations out of Kabul airport, the Axios news website reported on Tuesday citing an interview with Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani.

The Independent UK

Charlotte Bellis: Pregnant New Zealand journalist stranded in Afghanistan can return home

‘When the Taliban offers you – a pregnant, unmarried woman – safe haven, you know your situation is messed up,’ Charlotte Bellis writes

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