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Girls are seen entering a school in the Afghan capital Wednesday. This comes after Taliban authorities announced the reopening of secondary schools, more than seven months after seizing power and imposing harsh restrictions on the rights of women to be educated. IMAGES
Afghan girls, back in class for the first time since the Taliban seized power in August last year, had to pack up their belongings and file out of their schools. The Taliban ordered secondary girls schools in Afghanistan to shut just hours after they reopened, an official confirmed, sparking confusion over the policy reversal by the hardline Islamist group. IMAGES
Twenty years after being blasted out of Afghanistan's rugged central highlands, one of the country's famed Buddha statues makes a brief virtual return as a three-dimensional projection fills the alcove where the destroyed statue stood for centuries. IMAGES
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai says that Taliban rule in Afghanistan has made "girlhood illegal", in her keynote speech at an event held by the Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg to commemorate the anti-apartheid icon. “The Taliban have made girlhood illegal and it is taking a toll,” she says. IMAGES
Four Afghan women threatened by the Taliban and exiled in neighbouring Pakistan arrive at Roissy airport in Paris, several months after fleeing the Taliban regime that regained power in Afghanistan in the summer of 2021. IMAGES
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