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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Danish aid chief says group's Afghan female staff working

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A Danish aid group was able to keep its Afghan women employees working even after the Taliban takeover of the country last August, the chief of the nongovernmental organization said Tuesday.

Charlotte Slente, secretary general of the Danish Refugee Council, told The Associated Press that without the group's female staff, the NGO would not be able to reach half the population of Afghanistan.

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