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View all search resultsWith a small art gallery in the Afghan capital, Marzia Panahi aims to revive the use of felt in art, to showcase her war-torn country's creativity and to try to create jobs for young people hit hard by the pandemic.
A Kabul resident converted carbon-neutral rickshaw is one of around 40 owned by social enterprise Banu's Kitchen which had until recently employed women to sell food and support their families in Afghanistan's conservative society, but has now been transformed into mobile sanitizing stations in a country where many are without running water or easy access to health services.
Pompeo will meet President Ashraf Ghani and longtime rival Abdullah Abdullah, who contests the result of a September presidential vote, raising the prospect of parallel governments that has paralyzed selection of negotiating teams for talks.
On a sunny weekend in Kabul, 30-year-old Maryam Mohammdi drives a solar-powered rickshaw around a city suburb, selling burgers to hungry customers as part of a business that is employing dozens of women in a traditionally male-dominated profession.
Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai also defended the Taliban's role in recent bloodshed across the country after US President Donald Trump cited an attack that killed an American soldier as his reason for calling off negotiations earlier this month.
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