“We regret to inform you that international military evacuations from Kabul airport have ended.” That’s the grim message many Afghans received via text from US officials this weekend. The World’s Marco Werman speaks with a Kabul resident who worked on a high-profile women’s empowerment project, but she did not manage to get on an evacuation flight out of Afghanistan. (For security reasons we’re not using her name.)
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