DIRECT. Afghanistan: “Taliban have won”, says President Ashraf Ghani – Franceinfo

Find here all of our live #AFGHANISTAN

08:14 : “The position of Europe Ecologie Les Verts is clear. (…) Our duty is to welcome today, urgently and in good conditions, these people “, pleads on franceinfo Sandra Regol, deputy national secretary of the ecological party.

8:00 a.m. : Hello @Pika. In his press release yesterday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian affirms that France counts “do the best” to evacuate “personalities of Afghan civil society, defenders of rights, artists and journalists particularly threatened for their commitment”, and even announces the sending of reinforcements to help the staff of the French Embassy to issue visas from Kabul airport.

He adds that France has welcomed since May more than 600 employees of French structures “may be threatened” and their families, adding to more than 1,350 Afghans who have been part of the locally recruited civilian staff of the French army or their families hosted since 2013. The Association of Former Afghan Interpreters however affirmed at the end of July that 80 of them were still in Afghanistan, under threat from the Taliban.

8:00 a.m. : Hello, will France for once repatriate the Afghan staff who have worked for it, translators for example?

07:42 : “It is time for Joe Biden, discredited, to resign for allowing what happened in Afghanistan, but also because of the dizzying rise of the Covid, the disaster at the border, the suppression of our energy independence and the paralysis of our economy “.

During the night, Donald Trump called on his successor to resign, adding the debacle in Afghanistan to the list of what he sees as Joe Biden’s failures (he also claims to have always won the election). When he was in power, however, he also pleaded for a withdrawal from Afghanistan. But it would have been more successful, he thought a few days ago.

07:44 : An emergency meeting of the UN Security Council will take place at 4 p.m. (French time). Its secretary general, Antonio Guterres, called on the Taliban on Sunday “with the greatest restraint”, and expressed particular concern for “the future of women and girls, whose hard-won rights must be protected”.

07:44 : Tonight, 66 countries including France and the United States, have, in a joint press release (in English), called on the Taliban to “facilitate the safe and orderly departure of all foreign and Afghan citizens who wish to leave the country”.

6:55 a.m. : The fall of Kabul is of course the front page of most dailies this morning. They highlight the images of Taliban fighters in the streets of the capital or, for Release, that of the helicopter which evacuated the employees of the American embassy.

6:50 a.m. : A man present on the spot told AFP this morning that American soldiers “fire shots in the air” on the tarmac of the airport, where a crowd of Afghans tries to flee the country. “I saw a young girl being crushed and killed”, adds this witness.

08:07 : That night, the US military announced that it had “secured” the airport, where gunfire was reported yesterday. Nearly 6,000 soldiers are expected on site to facilitate the evacuations. The Americans say they intend to evacuate the thousands of Americans still present in the country, but also the Afghan employees of the American mission in Kabul and “other particularly vulnerable Afghans”.

6:43 a.m. : This is, perhaps, one of the saddest images I’ve seen from #Afghanistan. A people who are desperate and abandoned. No aid agencies, no UN, no government. Nothing. https://t.co/LCeDEOR3lR

6:43 a.m. : Another day begins in Kabul, a sea of ​​people rushing into the Kabul airport terminal. #AFG https://t.co/UekpGJ2MWd

08:06 : The day after the Taliban entered Kabul, a BBC journalist and a former journalist from the New York Times are uploading images of hundreds of Afghans running to the airport, where they hope to leave the country.

08:03 : Let’s start by recalling the main information from the last few hours:

• The Taliban entered Kabul and took the presidential palace. “The Taliban have won” said Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, on the run abroad. Expats in the country must be evacuated from the airport in the capital, where Afghans are also trying to flee.

• The results of the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that hit Haiti Saturday morning is now at least 1,297 dead and around 5,700 injured.

• The health pass will be requested from this morning in a number of shopping centers over 20,000 square meters, at least 126 according to an AFP count. Most are in departments where the incidence rate exceeds 200 cases per week per 100,000 inhabitants.