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Afghan universities reopen, with few women

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.

Bangkok Post

US Allows Transactions with Afghan Govt despite Sanctions

The United States on Friday issued new rules that would allow most commercial and financial transactions with Afghanistan while maintaining sanctions against the Taliban, in an effort to ease the flow of humanitarian aid and kickstart the paralyzed economy. Non-governmental organizations and financial institutions have expressed concerns about running afoul…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Afghan students return to Kabul U, but with restrictions

Students have returned to Kabul University, among Afghanistan's oldest and most revered institutions of higher education

The Independent UK

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US allows trade with Afghanistan despite Taliban sanctions

The Biden administration is seeking to assure financial institutions and other businesses that U.S. sanctions on the Taliban aren’t intended to interfere with trade that could help Afghanistan emerge from an economic and humanitarian crisis

The Independent UK

Paralysed banking system pushing Afghanistan towards collapse - Red Cross

Afghanistan is inching closer towards economic collapse six months after the Taliban seized power, the Red Cross said on Friday, with a paralysed banking system stymieing international efforts to get financial aid into the war-ravaged country.

Reuters

Taliban calls for calm in Ukraine

The Taliban’s statement is notably not a strong condemnation of Russia’s military actions in Ukraine

The Independent UK

UNICEF chief: Taliban committed to let girls back to school

UNICEF's top chief says the Taliban have committed to allowing Afghan girls to go to school next month

The Independent UK

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College dreams dashed as young Afghan women fight to keep poverty at bay

As students return to universities across Afghanistan this month, law major Waheeda Bayat will not be among them.

Reuters

Taliban tells Russia and Ukraine to resolve crisis through 'peaceful means'

The group expressed concern for civilian casualties and asked for Afghan migrants to be kept safe

Manchester Evening News

Fresh clashes on Pakistan-Afghanistan border kill two, wound several

Clashes between Afghan and Pakistani security forces have killed two people and wounded several in a border region of the two neighbours, officials said, the latest in a series of such skirmishes.

Reuters

Afghanistan’s libraries go into blackout: ‘It is painful to see the distance between people and books grow’

“The lights are off, shelves are in disarray and dust has coated every single book,” says Zabihullah Ehsas, my longtime friend and mentor, describing the current state of Khushal Baba Ketabtun, a library we established together in 2012. Our efforts represented an attempt to address the shortage of Pashto books…

The Conversation

Afghan refugees living in Australia on temporary visas call on government to grant them permanent protection

For the more than 10 years he's lived in Australia, Afghan refugee Abbas Haidari has been locked in a state of visa limbo that has left him unable to access permanent protection, sponsor his family or even take out a business loan. He and other advocates are calling for change.

ABC News

German aid group battles to evacuate Afghans who worked with army

Ahmad, a 30-year-old Afghan who worked for the German military, is now in hiding in Kabul in fear of his life.

Reuters

India sends wheat to Afghanistan after deal with Pakistan

India's foreign ministry says it has sent off tons of wheat to Afghanistan to help relieve desperate food shortages, after New Delhi struck a deal with neighboring rival Pakistan to allow the shipments across the shared border

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The Hindu

India sends first consignment of aid for Afghanistan

It marks the end to months of bureaucratic wrangling between Islamabad and New Delhi; truckers hope it will lead to reopening of trade

The Guardian - UK

Kabul to California: how the ‘hip-hop family’ mobilised for young Afghans

With breakdancers, artists and parkourists facing a bleak future under the Taliban, a global network stepped in to help, drawing on the activist spirit of rap culture

The Guardian - UK

West has inflicted catastrophic damage on Afghanistan, says David Miliband

‘We are not punishing the Taliban, we are making it worse for the people,’ says former UK foreign secretary

Al Jazeera

In remote Bamiyan, a school run by an Afghan woman offers hope

The school, set up by a university graduate, runs for two hours daily, offering opportunity to impoverished community.

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The Guardian - UK

Losing Afghanistan; The Naked Don’t Fear the Water reviews – fickle allies and personal tragedies

Six months on from the fall of Kabul, a collection of essays unpicks the catastrophic mess the west has left behind in Afghanistan, while the story of one young man’s perilous escape cannot fail to move

The Guardian - AU

‘The Taliban want revenge’: Afghanistan’s female judges in exile in Australia

Fifteen judges – at risk of Taliban and criminal retribution after the fall of Kabul – were forced to flee their homeland

France 24

Taliban releases four women’s rights activists but fear persists

On February 12, the Taliban released four Afghan women’s rights activists, who were arrested nearly a month earlier. Dozens more are being held in Taliban custody, according to other activists and US diplomats. The released women have not yet been able to share what happened to them in Taliban custody…

ABC News

Afghan-Australian 'Kardashians' threatened by the Taliban to pull reality TV show

The Australian star of an Afghan reality TV show — that has been likened to Keeping up with the Kardashians — says he's been threatened by the Taliban to pull the show as the hardline Islamist regime cracks down on Afghanistan's media.

The Independent UK

Afghanistan's Taliban detain Brits, American; reason unclear

The U.S. and British governments, as well as a family member, say Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have detained several British citizens and an American

Reuters

Exclusive-World Bank proposal would shift about $1 billion from Afghan trust

The World Bank's management has approved a plan to use some $1 billion in a frozen Afghanistan trust fund for education, agriculture, health and family programs, according to a bank paper and two sources, in what would be a major boost to efforts to ease the country's worsening humanitarian and…

Bangkok Post

Afghanistan faces famine, it can't be ignored

Because the Taliban have been designated as "terrorists", it is possible for the United States not only to embargo American aid and trade to Afghanistan, but also to block or at least seriously hinder efforts by other countries to send humanitarian aid. As a result, more than half the country's…

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