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Afghan universities reopen, with few women

Students walk in the courtyard of Badakshan University after it reopened, in Fayzabad, Afghanistan on Saturday. (AFP Photo)

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

Most secondary schools for girls and all public universities were shuttered following the Taliban takeover in August, sparking fears that women would be barred from education — as happened during the first rule of the hardline Islamists, from 1996 to 2001

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