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The World Bank In Afghanistan The World Bank, in close coordination with the international community, development partners, and the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) donors, is unlocking ARTF funds to support the Afghan people and deliver critical health, education and livelihoods support. Country Context: The political crisis of August 15, 2021, morphed into an economic confidence crisis. The cessation of aid caused a collapse in aggregate demand. Job losses and economic deprivation remained widespread as the gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 20.7 percent in 2021. As the aid was partially resumed (off-budget and smaller scale at about US$3.5 billion compared to US$9 billion in 2020), signs emerged by mid-2022 that the Afghan economy was settling around a fragile low-level equilibrium. Yet these signs of stabilization could not override the substantial pressures Afghan families faced in sustaining their livelihoods, as the contraction of the aid-driven service and security sectors had widespread spillovers into other sectors of the economy, affecting the entire welfare distribution. While headline inflation has eased from its peak of year-on-year (y-o-y) 18.3 percent in July 2022 to 3.5 percent in February 2023, the price level remains elevated. This deceleration in inflation reflects: (i) the continued downward trend in fuel and food prices in the international market; (ii) a stable exchange rate; and (iii) a winter-induced slowdown in economic activit...

Later, video put out by Taliban fighters take control of Afghan presidential palace after the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country in Kabul on Aug. 15, 2021. Zabi Karimi / AP U.S. officials had clearly not anticipated a possible fall of Kabul this quickly after President Joe Biden Abdullah Abdullah, the head of the Afghan National Reconciliation Council, confirmed reports that Ghani had left Afghanistan. "He left Afghanistan in a hard time, God hold him accountable," Abdullah, a longtime rival of Ghani's, said in an online video. The spokesman urged residents of the capital to remain calm. Earlier, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said fighters would "be on standby on all entrances of Kabul until a peaceful and satisfactory transfer of power is agreed." In a separate statement to NBC News, a Taliban spokesman said those entering Kabul were unarmed on instructions from senior commanders. U.S. forces evacuated all staff members from the city's U.S. Embassy via Kabul's airport after Biden And Taliban fighters on a Humvee after entering Kabul on Sunday. Jim Huylebroek / The New York Times via Redux Pictures Amid the rapid security deterioration, the French government announced it was relocating its embassy to the Kabul Airport, adding that it remained operation and was working to remove any "compatriots still left in the country." The evacuations come at the end of a rapid U.S. troop withdrawal launched in April and only weeks before the Biden has remained steadf...

On Sunday morning, the Taliban successfully reached Afghanistan’s capital city, Kabul, following The Islamist militant group’s successful capture of the capital marks the final stages of the Taliban’s full takeover of the country. The Taliban has accelerated its operations to gain control over Afghanistan since last year’s deal between the insurgents and the US under then-President Donald Trump, who agreed to a complete withdrawal of US military forces. As an August 31 deadline for US troop withdrawal drew near, the Taliban began a rapid seizure last week of outposts, towns, and cities, leading all the way to Kabul. Sign up for The Weeds newsletter Vox’s German Lopez is here to guide you through the Biden administration’s burst of policymaking. Most telling of the developments on the ground was perhaps the departure of President Ashraf Ghani, whose exit from the country on Sunday was confirmed by Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan’s top negotiating official, without mincing words. “The former Afghan president has left the nation,” Abdullah, the head of the High Council for National Reconciliation, said in a video announcement on Facebook. “He has left the nation in this state; [for that,] God will hold him to account.” In a later announcement, Ghani said he left the country to avoid bloodshed as Taliban forces entered the presidential palace. By midday, a Taliban official announced the group’s plans to rename the state as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Related By early Su...

By Saphora Smith and Jiachuan Wu Aug. 16, 2021 Few predicted that it would happen this fast. After U.S. troops began withdrawing from Afghanistan on May 1, the Taliban launched its offensive to take back control of the country they lost to the United States nearly 20 years ago, after it toppled their regime in 2001. President Donald Trump’s administration had made The militants made swift work of capturing rural districts even in the north of the country, a stronghold for the government. They then turned their guns on Afghan cities. On Aug. 6, Zaranj, the capital of Nimroz province, fell to the militants. Nine days later, By Monday, NBC News has highlighted key moments in the insurgents’ path to victory. By June 23, the Taliban were in control of 139 districts out of 398, or roughly a third of the country. They were advancing at a lightning pace that took international observers and even The speed of their offensive raised fresh doubts as to whether the U.S.-backed Afghan government could survive before U.S. forces left the country by Sept. 11. By Monday, the Taliban controlled three-quarters of the country including Kabul. President Ghani had fled the country and the Taliban were on the brink of taking political power. Two decades after it toppled the militant regime, the U.S. was scrambling to leave Afghanistan after the losses of thousands of U.S. lives and billions of dollars failed to bring lasting democracy. Many Afghans also headed for Kabul airport, causing chaos o...