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Somaliland Ready To Take In Afghan Refugees: Official
Somaliland has agreed "(in) principle" to take in refugees from Afghanistan, a foreign ministry official said Friday, as tens of thousands of people desperately flee the war-torn nation following a Taliban takeover earlier this month.
Somaliland Ready To Take In Afghan Refugees
Somaliland has agreed "(in) principle" to take in refugees from Afghanistan, a foreign ministry official said Friday, as tens of thousands of people desperately flee the war-torn nation following a Taliban takeover earlier this month.
The militants have repeatedly promised a different kind of rule to their brutal regime of the 1990s that saw girls barred from school, women confined to their homes, most entertainment banned, and stonings and public executions used as punishments.
But since their August 15 takeover of Kabul, many Afghans have grown increasingly desperate to escape the country before the Taliban's deadline for evacuations expires at the end of the month.
On Friday, a spokesman for Somaliland's foreign ministry told AFP that Hargeisa had entered into discussions with US officials about temporarily hosting Afghan refugees.
"We (in) principle agree... to host Afghan refugees for the transit period," the official said, adding that the agreement was still at a preliminary stage, with technicalities still to be worked out and no date set for their arrival.
The US government has also been in talks with Uganda about taking in refugees. On Wednesday, a charter flight carrying 51 Afghans -- including men, women and children -- landed in the East African country, with more evacuees expected to arrive in the coming days.
The evacuations were in response to a request from Washington to temporarily host "at-risk" Afghan nationals who are in transit to the United States and other destinations worldwide, Uganda's foreign ministry said.