2021 in review: Taliban's takeover gutted science in Afghanistan

Academics in Afghanistan were thriving before the shock takeover by the Taliban this year, which saw many researchers leave the country and universities closed

2021 in review: Taliban's takeover gutted science in Afghanistan

Academics successful Afghanistan were thriving earlier the daze takeover by the Taliban this year, which saw galore researchers permission the state and universities closed Humans 24 December 2021

By Jason Arunn Murugesu

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A Taliban gathering connected higher acquisition policies successful Kabul, Afghanistan, connected 29 August 2021

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The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan this twelvemonth led to a extremist makeover of the country, and subject was nary exception. Since the autumn of the Afghan government, scores of academics person fled the country. Public universities person been shut. Some backstage universities stay unfastened but classes are present segregated by gender.

“I was already acrophobic that I was connected a list,” says Hammad*, an world who fled Afghanistan earlier this twelvemonth conscionable earlier the US …

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