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A year after the return of the Taliban, where is Afghanistan?

Taliban fighters drive a car down a street in Kabul on August 2, 2022, after al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in a US strike in the Afghan capital.

REUTERS - ALI KHARA

By: Chantal Lorho Follow

1 min

On August 15, 2021, 20 years after being driven out by the Americans, the Taliban regained power in Kabul.

A year later, where is Afghanistan, which has become the Islamic Emirate?

How did the country sink into an economic and humanitarian crisis of which women are the first victims?

Why did the Taliban opt for the strictest interpretation of Sharia, even if it means remaining banned from nations and depriving themselves of billions of dollars frozen by Washington?

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What future for girls, banned from colleges and high schools, and for Afghan women, forced to wear the full veil, deprived of employment and confined to their homes?

What links remain between the Afghan fundamentalists and al-Qaeda whose leader, Ayman Al Zawahiri, was just killed on July 31, 2022, in the middle of Kabul by an American drone strike?

Guests: 

- Solène Chalvon-Fioriti,

great reporter, co-director with Margaux Benn of the documentary " 

 ", author of " 

 " at Flammarion.

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political scientist, professor at the American University of Kabul now moved to Venice, author of “ 

 ” published in 2021 by Asiathèque.

- Romain Malejack,

professor of political science at Radboud University in the Netherlands, author of " 

", at Cornell University Press.

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