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KABUL (Reuters) - A locally grown e-commerce platform in Afghanistan is connecting vendors with customers around the world, providing an important opportunity for the war-torn economy and inspiring a new trend of young women starting up their own small businesses.
E-commerce site Click.af started in 2016 to give Afghans access to a domestic online market, and last year began shipping globally, according to its founder Masiullah Stanikzai. The idea behind the expansion was to connect local designers and artisans to a larger base of consumers, he said, mainly Afghans living in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Australia.
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KAPPARA, Malta (Reuters) - I took the first photo of my daughter, Rebecca, moments after she was born on August 3, 2005.
Nurses Naomi Balzan and Nanette Azzopardi administer pain killers and sedatives to Rebecca Zammit Lupi, a 15-year-old cancer patient, as her mother Marisa Ford looks on, shortly before she passed away in her room in Rainbow Ward at Sir Anthony Mamo Oncology Centre in Mater Dei Hospital, in Tal-Qroqq, Malta January 3, 2021. This was the last photograph Reuters photographer Darrin Zammit Lupi took of his daughter while she was still alive - she passed away 57 minutes later. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi
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ADIGRAT, Ethiopia (Reuters) - The young mother was trying to get home with food for her two children when she says soldiers pulled her off a minibus in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, claiming it was overloaded.
An Ethiopian woman who says she was gang-raped by armed men is seen during an interview with Reuters in a hospital in the town of Adigrat, Tigray region, Ethiopia, March 18, 2021. The Ethiopian government did not respond to the woman’s specific allegations but promised perpetrators of sexual violence would be punished. Picture taken March 18, 2021. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
It was the beginning of an 11-day ordeal in February, during which she says she was repeatedly raped by 23 soldiers who forced nails, a rock and other items into her vagina, and threatened her with a knife.
After a year of economic meltdown in Lebanon, Hala Sheikh is sticking to a modest menu as she prepares the evening meal for her family to break their daily Ramadan fast.
In a patch of woodland in Myanmar's western Mon State, trees have been decorated with condoms and portraits of the military junta leader with a sign saying "Min Aung Hlaing's father should have used a condom".