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''Growing up in Afghanistan, it was all about war, it was very difficult to be a women...''

We’ve been hearing worrying reports from Afghanistan as the Taliban have now seized the country...

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13.44 13 Aug 2021


''Growing up in Afghanistan, it was all about war, it was very difficult to be a women...''


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13.44 13 Aug 2021


We’ve been hearing worrying reports from Afghanistan as the Taliban have now seized the country's second largest city Kandahar which is the latest provincial capital to fall.

We wanted to get a deeper understanding of what is actually happening there and what it’s like to live in Afghanistan especially as a woman.

Sharifa Wasie who is from Afghanistan and now living in Dublin and Navila, also an Afghan woman living in Ireland, joined Andrea on the show...

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