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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. I recently met someone who made it to the US from Kabul airport last year: a foster son taken in by someone close to me. 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.

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.

Government says it will supply 500000 homes in the Seoul area over five-year period.

The land ministry also said it would supply another 520,000 new homes in other big cities over the next five years. The government plans to supply 500,000 homes in the Seoul area over the five-year period, a more than 50 percent increase from the amount supplied in the past five years, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said in a statement on Tuesday. South Korea’s new government has unveiled plans to supply 2.7 million new homes across the country over the next five years, including hundreds of thousands of properties in big cities where a short supply has been blamed for rapid price rises.