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Afghan teen issues emotional appeal to Melania Trump after more than year and a half in US camp

The Independent·Arpan Rai·27 days ago
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A 14-year-old Afghan girl has made an emotional appeal to US first lady Melania Trump , asking her to intervene on behalf of hundreds of vulnerable Afghans who risked their lives to support the Nato mission in Afghanistan. Zahra has lived in a US-run camp for Afghan refugees called Camp As Sayliyah (CAS) in Qatar for the past 18 months, and has been out of school for more than four years. She is the daughter of an Afghan army officer who served alongside US forces before the Nato-backed government collapsed in August 2021, and control of the country fell to the Taliban. There are now concerns that she and around 1,100 other Afghans with ties to the Nato mission could be moved to a third country, after the Donald Trump administration halted a programme for them to be processed to the US. Many are now likely to be moved to central Africa’s Democratic Republic of the Congo , according to reports.…

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