The Guardian (UK): Nancy Yu, AKA Asia One is drawing on the hip-hop movement’s activist roots to help a group of artists and their families escape the Taliban. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: People who have been compelled to seek refuge in Iran in recent months represent their situation as a “purgatory of uncertainty.” Most of them run into problems with getting residential visas and permits in the host country and fear of being deported to Afghanistan. Click here to read more (external link). Related Dozens of
8am: The United States aims to open a new center in Northern Virginia to receive additional Afghan evacuees, Reuters reported. The center is scheduled to open as the government closes down the last of eight sites on military bases that have contained tens of thousands of people evacuated from Afghanistan since August. Click here to
CNN: Having fled the Taliban and decades of war in their native Afghanistan, the sisters find themselves at risk of being caught up in another conflict in their adopted home, Ukraine. Click here to read more (external link). Related For Many Afghan Evacuees, a Rocky Path to a New Life
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: KYIV — Born during the Afghan-Soviet War, Jawed Ahmad Haqmal lost five relatives in the 1979–1989 conflict that turned his homeland into a smoldering ruin of a country. But now the 33-year-old former interpreter for the Canadian military in Afghanistan is horrified by the possibility of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 10, 2022 Afghan refugees have staged a protest at a facility in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), demanding that they be sent to the United States. Thousands of Afghans were evacuated to the U.A.E. and have been housed at tightly controlled sites in the Persian
Ariana: The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has confirmed that a member of the Under-19 team and three board members have applied for asylum in the UK after taking part in the ICC U-19 World Cup tournament in the West Indies last week. Click here to read more (external link).
CNN: It was August 26 in Kabul, just barely evening, and Nasema was holding on tightly to two of the most important things in her life, not knowing that she would lose one of them before the sun completely set. In one hand, she held the key to her escape from Afghanistan: travel documents. In
8am: An investigative report by the New York Times shows that hundreds of thousands of people have migrated from Afghanistan following the recent political changes and the economic crisis in the country. The New York Times reported on Wednesday that more than one million people had migrated to Iran from Afghanistan’s southwestern border. Click here
Al Jazeera: Qatar has reached an agreement with the Taliban to resume chartered evacuation flights from Afghanistan, ending a dispute that resulted in a months-long pause, according to a report. Axios news agency, citing an interview with Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, reported on Monday that Qatar and the Taliban had