Afghan Diary: Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover - The interview with Natalie Amiri in the livestream

Created: 01/13/2022, 12:16 PM

Correspondent Natalie Amiri traveled to Afghanistan in late 2021.

In her diary she reports on her experiences - more than 100 days after the Taliban came to power.

Munich / Kabul - 100 days after the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, Natalie Amiri traveled to the battered country. The international correspondent wanted to know how people are doing now, what the future of women looks like - and what plans the radical Islamist group has. The result is the seven-part series “Afghan Diary”. In a

, Natalie Amiri looks back on her journey and gives exclusive insights.

What do you take with you to a country where the majority of people are acutely threatened by hunger, thought Natalie Amiri at the beginning of her diary.

After arriving in Kabul, she met women whose lives had changed radically under the rule of the Taliban.

She spoke to Mahboubah Seraj, who refuses to leave the country - one of the few Afghan women's rights activists who have stayed.

And she met a competitive athlete who was hoping to leave the country and asked herself: “How do you tell a young woman who sits across from you crying and fears for her life, mother of a two-year-old son, that the list she should have been on was closed by the German government on August 31st? "

Afghanistan under Taliban rule: Natalie Amiri reports on her trip to the country

In the city of Kandahar, Natalie Amiri got an interview with Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Muhajid.

What surprised her the most: When asked whether he was not surprised that the Taliban had come to power so quickly with almost no resistance, he replied with "Yes!"

In the fourth episode of her “Afghan Diary” the journalist went on a search for clues.

Why did the Afghan army offer so little resistance to the Taliban *?

It paints the picture of a defeated army of ghosts.

Afghan Diary: Live interview with International Correspondent Natalie Amiri on Thursday, January 20th, 7.30pm.

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Natalie Amiri then wanted to drive back to Kabul from Kandahar on what was once the most dangerous road in the country.

Highway 1 once stood for the modernization of Afghanistan.

Instead, it became a symbol of failure.

During her 15-hour drive - with stops in between - she noticed numerous solar panels along the way.

And spoke to farmers in the middle of the Afghan province, who generate their own electricity in this way - and are happy about the current state of the country.

More than 100 days after the Taliban came to power: population threatened by acute famine

The physician Dr. Alkozai. About the fact that they finally stopped the fighting that the hospital was in the middle of. He treated people who were seeing a doctor for the first time in 20 years. In episode 6, Natalie Amiri reveals the devastating medical care situation in Afghanistan. Many doctors had not received any salaries for months, medical equipment, bandages and medicine were missing. The first clinics have already closed. And Amiri reported on the children of Afghanistan *. More and more were abandoned by their families in villages, and they wandered about countless numbers. According to aid organizations in Afghanistan, one million children are at risk of starvation.

Because the country is sliding deeper and deeper into a humanitarian catastrophe. Natalie Amiri describes the cruel reality firsthand in her Afghan Diary. The plight of the people is unimaginable. Conditions that quickly fade from our minds when you don't see the suffering with your own eyes. "In Afghanistan nobody talks about Corona *, they don't have the time. They don't have the luxury, ”sums up Natalie Amiri. Because the people of the country have to make sure that their children don't die tomorrow.

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's livestream interview

with Natalie Amiri about her Afghan Diary will take place on Thursday, January 20, 7.30 p.m.

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7 days in Afghanistan: Afghan Diary by Natalie Amiri 

We are all still aware of the tragic images of the days around August 30, 2021 that accompanied the withdrawal of international troops from Afghanistan.

Thousands of people desperately tried to get on one of the planes at Kabul airport to travel west.

They did not want to live in an Afghanistan ruled by the Taliban again.

Few of them were lucky enough to get a seat on board. 

Since then, the Taliban have ruled the torn and impoverished country, which many observers are predicting a humanitarian catastrophe this winter.

Natalie Amiri, international correspondent, kept an impressive diary during her most recent research stay for her new book (to be published on March 14, 2022) in Afghanistan.

published the diary of their trip in seven parts both online and in print in some titles such as

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