Afghanistan: in Kabul, the flea market arose from despair

Ángeles Espinosa

(El Pais)

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If there is one place where the economic disaster caused by the Taliban's rise to power is palpable, it is the flea market that has sprung up next to the Chianti Bridge, in the Kabulian district of Chaman-e. Hozori.

There are kitchen utensils, irons, old televisions and especially carpets, by the dozen.

Without forgetting large cushions, yet essential in every Afghan household, the custom being to sit on the floor.

Many families resort to selling their belongings, a manifestation of the appalling humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.

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Sitting on an imposing red and blue carpet, Ahmad Khalid awaits a possible buyer.

"

I sell the carpet and the cushions: since the fall of the former government, my salary has not been paid and, at home, we have nothing to eat,

" he asserts. looking down.

His family is not among the thousands who escaped

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