New explosions throw again Acceptance in the terror caused by the attacks. Earlier, local media reported that a rocket launched in the direction of the airport hit a house 5 kilometers from the airport, killing at least 6 people, including 4 children, and wounding three others. Then the Reuters, citing a US official, reported a new drone raid accomplished by Washington against an a ‘car bomb on which “several suicide bombers” traveled by Islamic State in the province of Khorasan, always in the capital. This action caused several collateral explosions due to the explosives present on the vehicle. Spokesperson for the Taliban Zabihullah Mujahid he explained that the terrorists wanted to carry out a new attack on the airport in the capital. It is not yet clear whether these are two separate cases or the same episode, but it all happened while the Amir al-muminin Taliban, Hibatullah Akhndzada, comes out and for the first time will meet publicly with the leaders of the a Kandahar for the formation of the new Afghan government, according to what Taliban sources told the broadcaster Tolo news. A historic event, given that the Supreme Guide who took office in 2016 had decided, a bit like the founder mullah Omar, to remain totally isolated, fueling theories about his possible death.
Only the stars and stripes personnel remained on the ground, gradually leaving the control of the airport of Acceptance in the hands of the Taliban militias. France e Great Britain, explains the president Emmanuel Macron, they will ask Monday at UN Security Council the creation of a “safe zone” in the capital to allow the continuation of humanitarian operations on the spot and protect people who try to leave Afghanistan after 31 August. There Turkeyinstead, it announced the reopening of its embassy in the Afghan capital.
But if the alert remains high for new attacks by terrorist groups present in the country, Islamic state e al-Qaeda above all, the emergency is also registered on a financial and public order level: they are registered clashes in front of banking institutions of the capital, after the block on cash withdrawal started as early as mid-August, which threw stones at the crowd to disperse the most agitated, as reported al-Jazeera. While in the north, in the Panshir valley, holds the armed truce between the Islamist fighters and the men of Ahmad Massoud, con i Taliban who, after cutting off all communications in the area, announced the achievement of a agreement with the last still active representatives ofNorthern Alliance, even if the sources who spoke about it did not specify on what terms.
Meanwhile, after the stop at lessons, the Taliban Minister of Education announced that from now on in the universities of Afghanistan female students and students will be divided. “They will continue to study in separate classes, as she wants Sharia“, he has declared Abdul Baqi Haqqani, as reported by Tolo News. While the agency Pajhwok reports that the militiamen have introduced a ban on radio and television in the province of Kandahar to broadcast music and female voices.
Use: “Stay away from the airport”
The United States meanwhile, they renew the alert to their citizens for a “specific and credible threat near the airport”, asking them not to go to the airport in the capital or immediately leave the entrances for those who are already present. Alert that was confirmed with the explosion this afternoon. The Biden administration intends also withdraw the ambassador and all the diplomatic staff by Tuesday 31 August, writes the Washington Post citing some sources, according to which it is not clear if and when they could return to the Asian country. “We are waiting for the final nod from the Americans to take full control” of the airport, meanwhile he told the agency Reuters an official Taliban source. We have, he stressed, a team of “highly qualified technicians and engineers” to manage the airport in the Afghan capital.
Banks closed, liquidity is lacking
The clashes outside the capital’s banks, after thousands of people lined up at the institutions on August 14, after the Taliban took the capital, to withdraw all their savings, are an indication of the blockade in which it is preparing to finish the country, after the new bosses of Afghanistan have imposed a stop on withdrawals. As reported by the delegate of the International Committee of Red Cross in Afghanistan, Alberto Cairo, its Republic, the lack of cash is throwing the country intoimmobility: i shops they remain closed because no one has banknotes to pay for the goods to be purchased, i construction sites they stopped because there is no money to give to the workers, the population cannot buy primary goods such as food, wood or gas and even the employees of the organization will only receive a down payment of their salaries, for the time being. A situation that, if not quickly unlocked, risks leading the country to collapse soon, given the apparent inability of the new rulers to manage the financial situation of a real state. Every day the Koranic students they repeat that soon the money will be available again, but the hours pass and the release does not arrive.
Safe zones and humanitarian corridors, France and the UK move for evacuations after 31 August
Macron, after announcing his willingness to work on the creation of one safe zone in Kabul, he also said they have been “Discussions have begun with the Taliban” to “protect and repatriate Afghans at risk beyond August 31”. France is counting on the help of the Qatar that, thanks to its good relations with the Taliban, “has the possibility of organizing air transport operations or reopening some airlines,” Macron said. To the Sunday Newspaper the French president said he envisions “targeted evacuations that will not be carried out through the military airport in Kabul. We will see – added Macron – if this can be done through the civil airport of the Afghan capital or through neighboring countries ”.
Unicef: “300 thousand displaced children”
In the country it is also accompanied by the alert security and financial difficulties the humanitarian emergency, hundreds of thousands of people are leaving their homes in an attempt to leave Afghanistan and Unicef complaint that I am 300 thousand displaced children after the takeover by the Taliban. “We cannot abandon the children of Afghanistan in times of need”, is the appeal launched by the regional director George Laryea-Adjei. The organization has also estimated that 1 million children under 5 will suffer from severe malnutrition, life-threatening. Over 4 million children, including 2.2 million girls, are out of school. “They are struggling with anxieties and fears, too many have seen scenes that no child should ever see,” they say.
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