: Where Things Stand in Afghanistan One Year After the U.S. Withdrawal—and What Could Happen Next #WorldNEWS One year since the Aug. 31, 2021 U. S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the country has spiraled

Where Things Stand in Afghanistan One Year After the U.S. Withdrawal—and What Could Happen Next #WorldNEWS
One year since the Aug. 31, 2021 U. S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the country has spiraled as many had feared. Their absence has brought a sense of relief among many Afghans who lamented the violence caused by a two-decade long war but there is now a deep humanitarian crisis. Nearly 20 million people—about half the country—are facing acute hunger amid a significant fall in per-capita incomes and foreign currencies.
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The Taliban has pursued an increasingly hardline approach. An Aug. 15 Amnesty International report documented an exceedingly repressive regime that has pursued a brutal approach toward women, targeted attacks on Afghan minority groups, engaged in extrajudicial killings against opponents, cracked down on peaceful protests, and stifled the press.
Here’s what to know about the state of Afghanistan today.
A dire economic crisis
Prior to the Taliban takeover in August 2021, the U. S. -backed government depended on the international community for around 80% of its national budget. “It wasn’t a strong safety net but it was a safety net nonetheless. It being taken away essentially precipitated this terrible crisis and made it very difficult for many Afghans to make ends meet,” says Michael Kugelman, the deputy director of the Asia Program at the Wilson Center and expert on Afghanistan.
A World Bank report in April noted that per capita incomes likely fell by about one-third over the last months of 2021 as a result of steep declines in international aid and the U. S. decision to freeze nearly . 5 billion in Afghan central bank assets. These decisions were attempts to prevent the Taliban from accessing money but came with a staggering human cost for the country.
More recently, U. S. President Joe Biden’s executive order in February to earmark about . 5 billion in those frozen assets from the Afghan central bank for a pot to cover payments from lawsuits by American victims of 9/11 has been heavily criticized by many Afghans. (They later celebrated a federal U. S. judge’s recommendation Aug. 26 that 9/11 victims should not be allowed to seize assets from Afghanistan’s central bank. ) U. S. -based Afghans For A Better Tomorrow had called Biden’s decision “short-sighted, cruel” and warned it would “worsen a catastrophe in progress, affecting millions of Afghans, many of whom are on the verge of starvation. ” The Biden Administration initially said that an equal amount would go to humanitarian aid in Afghanistan, but has since ruled out releasing that money in the near future—citing concerns that Al Qaeda’s leader Ayman al-Zawahri had been taking refuge in Kabul.

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