Al Jazeera

2022 - 8 - 15

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When covering Afghanistan, what matters is the people (Aljazeera.com)

For decades, the Afghan people have lived through war: from the Soviet invasion in 1979 – when my mother and her family left for the US – to civil wars, and the ...

But as a responsibility to put the people at the forefront of Afghanistan’s narrative, not just the political leadership. He was tender-hearted and vulnerable, because he is a boy who has been burdened with the responsibility of saving his family from a life of poverty. We remember the surreal images last year of Afghans clinging to a US Air Force jet in what can only be described as desperation personified. Since then, the group has had to grapple with being on the receiving end of attacks against the people they govern. No, he wanted to be buried in his home of the past 30 years, America, despite not sharing the soil with the ancestors who came before him. He much preferred basking in the sunlight of his fond memories.

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Photos: The 20 years of Cristiano Ronaldo's professional career (Aljazeera.com)

Portuguese football captain Cristiano Ronaldo launched his professional career at Sporting Lisbon in 2002. Within a year, he was signed up by Manchester ...

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Papua New Guinea fails to end 'evil' of sorcery-related violence (Aljazeera.com)

Brutal torture and assault of women accused of witchcraft go unpunished while policies to tackle issue falter.

We asked the leaders of the village to surrender them but as several of them are also implicated in the atrocities committed, they did not cooperate. I remember one case where I sent two officers to arrest some people involved in torture and instead they started interrogating the victims, pressuring them to confess they were sorcerers. “But when the hype fades, the funding disappears.” “Other church denominations are neutral while others are complicit with preachers who actually advocate the violence. We see trends like robberies, rape and accusations of sorcery because the youths are confused.” I had them disciplined but they got off the charges,” he said. “In the past, the violence here was culturally oriented. We went into the village looking for suspects, but they had decamped. They were giving off a bad smell from their wounds when we met them,” Dickson Tanda, the Catholic Church’s SARV coordinator in Enga, told Al Jazeera. But after a tense standoff involving hundreds of angry armed villagers convinced beyond doubt of the women’s guilt, police backed off. “This weekend just past we rescued another woman accused of sorcery. The others had already died.

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