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Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Two sources with direct knowledge tell me that NCL sends its portion of. Even NCL, the company owned by Hamed Wardak, pays. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. He’s got to be involved with the Taliban. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. Additional help by Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson and Marc Filippino. Revlon bankruptcy becomes a fight over memesīehind the Money: Afghanistan one year later Plus, the FT’s Benjamin Parkin recently visited Afghanistan and reports back what it has been like there a year since the Taliban regained control.įinland and Sweden hold talks with Turkey to push Nato bid UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the current $1.3bn UN humanitarian appeal for Afghanistan is only 39 percent funded.Finland will host talks with Sweden and Turkey for talks on the Nordic countries’ Nato membership bids, and we’ll take a look at the ins and outs of Revlon’s bankruptcy. I urge them to provide timely, flexible and comprehensive funding,” the UN secretary-general said. “I urge all member states to dig deep for the people of Afghanistan in their darkest hour of need. “Now more than ever, Afghan children, women and men need the support and solidarity of the international community,” he said in a statement on Tuesday as he pleaded for financial support from nations. The United States and the Taliban continue to negotiate the release of billions of dollars of Afghanistan’s central bank reserves that could help get the moribund economy. Guterres expressed his “grave concern at the deepening humanitarian and economic crisis in the country”, adding that basic services threatened to collapse “completely”. “So there’s still some limitations to what Cina’s going to be willing to do economically, even if it continues to be happy and the Taliban are keen to be able to send these signals that China’s willing to swing in on scale.”Īfghanistan desperately needs money, and the Taliban is unlikely to get swift access to the roughly $10bn in assets here mostly held abroad by the Afghan central bank.Įarlier this week, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres warned of a looming “humanitarian catastrophe” in Afghanistan and urged countries to provide emergency funding as severe drought and war have forced thousands of families to flee their homes. “It might do some smaller scale investments but those longer term investments will depend on there being enough stability in the country and enough security in the country for these to turn into something that’s economically viable,” he added. In Nimroz, a southern province that is a market hub for opium and illegal drugs, only 9 per cent (5.1m) of the Taliban’s finances were earned from drugs last year, while 80 per cent (40.9m. “China doesn’t do large scale aid it will provide aid in modest terms, it will provide humanitarian assistance and it’s not going to bail out a new government,” he told Al Jazeera. He said women would be able to work as nurses, in the police or as assistants in ministries, but ruled out that there would be female ministers.Īndrew Small, senior transatlantic fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States Asia programme, said China’s engagement in Afghanistan would be dependent on political stability. Mujahid also confirmed that women would be allowed to continue studying at universities in future. In addition, China is our pass to markets all over the world.”
There are “rich copper mines in the country, which, thanks to the Chinese, can be put back into operation and modernised. He said the New Silk Road – an infrastructure initiative with which China wants to increase its global influence by opening up trade routes – was held in high regard by the Taliban.