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Afghan public universities reopen with gender segregated classes

Students attend a class at Badakshan University in Faizabad, Afghanistan [Omer Abrar/AFP]

Afghanistan’s main universities have reopened six months after the Taliban returned to power, but only a trickle of women have returned to now-segregated classes.

Most secondary schools for girls and all public universities were shuttered following the Taliban’s August 15 takeover, sparking fears women would be barred from education – as happened during the first rule of the Taliban, from 1996-2001.

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