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UN Inks Agreement With Taliban To Establish 4,000 Schools In Afghanistan
UNICEF has struck a deal with Afghanistan based terror group Taliban to set up schools inside their controlled area. the UN agency aims to set up 4000 schools.
UNICEF has struck a deal with Afghanistan-based terror group Taliban to set up schools inside their controlled area. Under the deal, the UN agency aims to set up as many as 4,000 schools across the war torn country and lift over 15 million people from poverty and illiteracy. Taliban, over the years, has destroyed hundreds of schools as part of their war against western education.
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About 40 rejected Afghan asylum-seekers arrived in Kabul on Tuesday after being deported from Germany, in a move that has triggered fierce criticism.
Deutsche Welle reported Wednesday that Germany has resumed deportations of rejected asylum-seekers to Afghanistan after suspending flights in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Günter Burkhardt, from Pro Asyl, a refugee organization, has called for the planned deportations to be stopped immediately.
“It is completely irresponsible to go ahead with such plans at a time when the whole country (Germany) goes into a nationwide lockdown,” he told DW.
Coronavirus infection rates in Afghanistan are also high, constituting a threat to the deportees’ safety, the organization stated.
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Germany resumes deportations to Afghanistan despite COVID
Germany is resuming deportations of rejected asylum-seekers to Afghanistan, which had been suspended with the first wave of coronavirus in March. The move has triggered fierce criticism.
There is high security around every deportation flight
Around 40 rejected asylum-seekers from Afghanistan have arrived in Kabul, according to Afghanistan s Refugee Affairs Ministry.
Among them is a 21-year-old whom the German refugee organization Flüchtlingsrat Berlin describes as a heavily traumatized individual. The young Afghan was in a German prison for various petty crimes and was due to be released in January. We don t want to belittle his crimes, the organization writes in a press statement. But we think it is irresponsible of Germany at a time of an international pandemic to rid itself of an individual who came to Berlin as an underage refugee, after having suffered traumatizing events in his childhood.