Because the Taliban are increasingly restricting women’s rights, the German government stopped almost all projects in Afghanistan in December. Now she wants to send money again so that women and girls are not “punished twice”.
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Angelica Slavik, Berlin
Germany will resume financing development projects in Afghanistan. This emerges from an internal letter from the Ministry of Development Süddeutsche Zeitung present. According to this, the Chancellery, the Development Ministry and the Foreign Ministry have discussed how the aid for Afghanistan should be dealt with in the future. Most of the projects financed by Germany were suspended at the end of December after the Taliban imposed a ban on women working in humanitarian organizations. Now help is to be financed again – albeit with a new condition: only projects that support women and girls will be continued.