UN Afghan staff told to stay home as Taliban signals UN female ban

FILE PHOTO: The United Nations logo is seen at the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 23, 2019. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

UNITED NATIONS/KABUL (Reuters) -The United Nations told some 3,300 Afghan staff not to come to work in Afghanistan for the next two days after the Taliban authorities signaled on Tuesday that they would enforce a ban on Afghan women working for the world body.

U.N. officials in Afghanistan "received word of an order by the de facto authorities that bans female national staff members of the United Nations from working," U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters in New York.