Tag: Afghanistan
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JUST IN: Another explosion rocks Kabul
An explosion was heard near Kabul airport, witnesses said on Sunday, and television footage showed black smoke rising into the sky but there was no immediate word on any casualties. It happened on a day the United States and allies are winding up evacuation of Americans and Afghans at the Kabul airport. On Thursday, twin…
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Post Afghanistan implications for Nigeria – Dakuku Peterside
By Dakuku Peterside In the past week, the unfolding events in Afghanistan have dominated the media space. The seemingly unimaginable happened. The Taliban forces marched into the capital, forcing the scampering away of the president of Afghanistan government and his officials, western diplomats, and a few Afghans privileged to be airlifted or unfortunate to cling…
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US alerts citizens in Afghanistan of ‘security threats’, tells them to avoid Kabul Airport
The United States on Saturday urged its citizens in Afghanistan to avoid traveling to the Kabul airport for now, citing “potential security threats” near its gates. The warning, posted on the website of the US Embassy in Afghanistan and tweeted by the State Department in Washington, provided no detail on the nature of the threat.…
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Keeping Afghanistan at bay – Francis Ewherido
BY Francis Ewherido I am not sure which word I became conscious of first, but I suspect “Afghanistan” as a country. In my secondary school days, I studied geography at a point and also followed international affairs. I probably became conscious of “Afghanistanism” (“the practice, as by a journalist, of concentrating on problems in distant…
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Kabul evacuation one of largest, most difficult airlifts in history – Biden
United States President Joe Biden said Friday he could not guarantee the outcome of emergency evacuations from Kabul, calling it one of the most difficult airlift operations ever, but added he would mobilize “every resource” to repatriate Americans. “This is one of the largest, most difficult airlifts in history,” Biden said in a televised address…
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Taliban: Afghanistan national team footballer dies after falling from U.S. plane
An Afghan footballer who played for the national youth team fell to his death after trying to cling to a US plane airlifting people out of Taliban-controlled Kabul, a sports federation said Thursday. The General Directorate of Physical Education and Sports of Afghanistan, a government institution that worked with sporting groups, confirmed the death of…
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Lies, Damned Lies About Afghanistan – Azu Ishiekwene
Azu Ishiekwene In journalism proverb, Afghanistan is a convenient shelter, the writer’s fantasy island from topical issues at home. In the current deluge of news from that country, however, that proverb appears to have lost its meaning. There’s no need for escape to Afghanistan; the traffic is the other way, while Afghanistan’s mythical status is…
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Taliban must decide whether it wants int’l recognition – Biden
The Taliban must decide whether it wants to be recognised by the international community, according to U.S. President Joe Biden. Biden, who said this in an ABC interview aired on Thursday, added that he did not think the group had changed its fundamental beliefs. Asked if he thought the Taliban had changed, Biden told ABC…
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Nigeria can’t go Afghanistan way – Lai Mohammed
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed says Nigeria is not a failed state and cannot go the way of Afghanistan where terrorist group has taken the rein of power. The minister stated this in Washington DC during his engagements with international media organisations including the BBC Radio and Television, Bloomberg and Politico.…
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Afghan Taliban to hold first news conference – Spokesperson
Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said in a tweet that he will hold a news conference on Tuesday at a media centre in Kabul that was previously used by the Afghan government. Mujahid said media representatives and journalists could come to the media centre. The Taliban urged people in Afghanistan on Tuesday to live their routine…