Afghan

Meryl Streep shines brightly as one of the finest talents in Hollywood, but her recent appearance at the United Nations highlighted a different mission: advocating for the women of Afghanistan. These women, stripped of their right to self-expression under Taliban rule, face astonishing limitations on their lives. A recent UN report paints a grim picture of the situation, asserting that for the last three years, the Taliban regime has systematically "erased women from Afghanistan's public sphere." True to these findings, at…

After Uganda, it is Rwanda's turn to welcome refugees from Afghanistan. While the first plane filled with people fleeing the Taliban's capture of Kabul arrived in Kampala on Wednesday, Kigali is waiting for an entire school to arrive. This is the Afghanistan School of Leadership, the only boarding school for young girls in the country. It was the founder of the facility who announced it on Twitter on…

Tonight Uganda welcomes its first group of refugees fleeing Afghanistan, we head to South Africa as the country has the highest unemployment rate in the world according to Bloomberg, and Yemeni fish become the dish national of Djibouti. .

Ugandan parliamentarians on Wednesday (August 17) called for clarification on the government's proposal to welcome people fleeing Kabul after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan over the weekend. While negotiations are still ongoing to complete the terms of this reception in the Ugandan Parliament, some have expressed reservations.…

From Kabul to Kampala, they are more than 5,000 kilometers apart, but Uganda says it is ready to welcome refugees from Afghanistan, whose country came under Taliban control over the weekend. After consulting with the United States, President Yoweri Museveni expressed Uganda's "readiness" to temporarily house people affected by the ongoing crisis, according to a statement released on Tuesday due to "the long history and tradition. Host country". But this eventual reception requires a certain number of guarantees, explains…

Tonight, Uganga weighs the demand of the United States to welcome refugees fleeing Afghanistan, Tunisia is stepping up its vaccination campaign and we are watching the seasonal delicacy of the Central African Republic. .

At least three rockets landed near the Afghan presidential palace on Tuesday as the country's leader Ashraf Ghani held outdoor prayers with top officials to mark the beginning of the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday. Although there was no immediate claim of responsibility, it was the first rocket attack on Kabul since the Taliban…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered to secure Afghanistan’s vital Kabul international airport in a bid to improve US-Turkey relations as American and NATO troops complete their pullout from the war-battered country. But a Taliban warning underscores the military and diplomatic challenges of the Turkish offer. The drive to Kabul’s main airport has turned into a crawl during the 20-year US security presence in Afghanistan, with ever-increasing security checkpoints slowing travellers as they inch towards the…

The Taliban has offered a three-month ceasefire in exchange for the release of 7,000 insurgent prisoners, an Afghan government negotiator said on Thursday, when Pakistan confirmed that the militant group had control of an important border crossing. "There is a huge demand," said Nader Nadery, a key member of the government group involved in peace talks with the Taliban, adding that the rebels also demanded that their leaders' names be removed from a UN blacklist. It was not immediately clear how the government would…

Thousands of interpreters who helped US and NATO forces in Afghanistan will be evacuated beginning in late July, Washington said on Wednesday as Taliban insurgents captured a strategic crossing at Pakistan's border with government forces. In what the White House called Operation Allies Refuge, interpreters and their families…