UN in talks about possibly handing over Afghan teaching projects to Taliban


  • World
  • Thursday, 15 Jun 2023

FILE PHOTO: A UNICEF worker helps an internally displaced girl put on a face mask at a makeshift camp, amid the pandemic, in Jalalabad, Afghanistan June 22, 2020. REUTERS/Parwiz/File Photo

(Reuters) - The U.N. children's agency said it was holding discussions with Afghanistan's ruling Taliban over "timelines and practicalities" for a possible required handover of its education programmes and that classes would continue in the meantime.

Aid officials say that the Taliban had signalled international organisations could no longer be involved in education projects, in a move criticised by the U.N. but not yet confirmed by Afghan authorities.

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