Shkula Zadran, Afghanistan’s Youth Representative to the United Nations, addresses U.N. Security Council. She said her generation have been the main victims of the war in Afghanistan. “We are being killed, our dreams are being buried everyday,” she told the Security Council. Courtesy: UN Photo/Loey Felipe
BONN, Germany, Dec 18 2020 (IPS) - While Afghanistan ends a historic year, filled with the hope for peace as the government and Taliban sat down for almost three months of consecutive peace talks for the first time in 19 years, it was also a year filled with violence with provisional statistics by the United Nations showing casualties for this year being higher than 2019.
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election either. they were as shock as all of us. they are in a scramble to figure out how to do this. he is a very unconventional guy and unconventional candidate and president-elect. we have seen that in many ways not knowing the proo col of how to run the transition. in micro and macro ways. great again.gov, we noticed there is a meet the president-elect page and it contains a detailed list of his properties and businesses. that has not happen. we have never had a president so deeply immeshed in business. who is paying when he stays overnight in his trump tower. his properties are getting reimbursed by taxpayers. it s a different scenario than in the past. doesn t mean it s illegal, but the government has to figure it out. uncharted territory in many different ways.
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