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Diabierna 3 September 2021
“Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin falta di nada
Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta ponemi sosega.
E ta hibami na awa trankil,
Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”.
Salmo: 23
Cu hopi dolor y tristesa nos ta anuncia
fayecimento di:
Norbert Washington Crowther
*22-12-1957 – †16-08-2021
Acto di entiero lo tuma lugar diasabra 4 di
September 2021 na Pray Funeral Home di 2 pa
4 pm despues saliendo pa Santana centraal na
Sabana Basora.
Laga tur locual cu ta spera mi ta bunita
Laga tur locual cu mi encontra na caminda ta
bunita
Laga tur locual cu ta rondonami ta bunita
Y laga esakinan termina den tur bunitesa
Nos ta anuncia fayecimento inesperadamente:
Orlando Ricardo Kock
Cariñosamente yama: “Lando” of “Papa”
*20-05-1962 - †27-08-2021
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia despues.
Dor di situacionnan di COVID nos no ta ricibi
bishita di condolencia na cas.
Qatar says it’s not clear when Kabul airport
will reopen
(AP) — Qatar’s top diplomat
said Thursday that experts
are racing to reopen Kabul’s
airport but warned it was
not clear when flights would
resume, with many still des-
perate to flee Afghanistan’s
new Taliban leaders amid
concerns over what their
rule will hold.
In the wake of their rapid take-
over, the Taliban have sought
to calm those fears, including
pledging to let women and girls
attend school and allow people
to travel freely. But many are
skeptical, and Britain’s foreign
minister stressed the impor-
tance of engaging with the new
rulers to test their promises. cial airlines will be willing to of- national terrorist groups from
fer service. using the war-scarred country as
In a reflection of those anxiet- a base.
ies, dozens of women protested “We remain hopeful we will be
outside the governor’s office in able to operate it as soon as pos- “In all of these areas,” Raab said,
the western province of Herat to sible,” Al Thani told reporters in “we will judge them by what
demand their rights be protect- Doha. “We are still in the evalu- they do, not just by what they
ed. They shouted slogans and ation process. ... We are working say.”
urged the country’s new lead- very hard and engaging with the
ers to include women in their Taliban to identify what are the In Herat, the protesters had a
Cabinet — a remarkable dem- gaps and the risks for having the similar message for the Taliban.
onstration of the transformation airport back up and running.”
in women’s lives in the past 20 “The Taliban leadership is an-
years. Turkish Foreign Minister Mev- nouncing women rights, but
lut Cavusoglu suggested that they should show it in action,”
When they last held power in military flights — which could said Friba Kabrzani, who helped
the late 1990s, the Taliban im- be used to evacuate more peo- organize a rally at the provincial
posed a repressive rule, meting ple — could potentially resume governor’s office.
out draconian punishments and first.
largely excluding women from “We want the world to hear
public life. On Thursday, Tal- Qatar, a tiny Gulf Arab sheikh- us and we want our rights to
iban fighters prevented the fe- dom that has played an outsized be saved,” Kabrzani said, not-
male demonstrators from seeing role in American efforts to evac- ing that some families forbade
the governor as they demanded, uate tens of thousands of people women from joining the dem-
but they did not break up the from Afghanistan, said it re- onstration out of fear for their
rally. mains in talks with other world safety.
powers to enable the capital’s
Amid uncertainty about Af- airport to resume commercial Another participant, Maryam
ghanistan’s future, tens of thou- flights. Ebram, warned that “anything
sands raced to flee the country can be expected from the Tal-
in a frantic U.S.-run airlift that iban,” but that Afghan women
ended ahead of the final Ameri- Appearing alongside Al Thani, would continue to protest for
can withdrawal earlier this week. U.K. Foreign Secretary Domi- their rights nonetheless.
A suicide bomber targeted the nic Raab touched on concerns
evacuation efforts at one point, over how diplomatic and aid “Our rights were not gifted to
killing 169 Afghans and 13 U.S. efforts will proceed as foreign us and we will not let them fade
service members. powers confront a leadership easily,” she said.
whose members remain on ter-
Kabul’s airport, a major way out rorist watch lists around the
of the country, is now in Taliban world.
hands but is closed, and Qatari
Foreign Minister Mohammad Although the United Kingdom
bin Abdulrahman Al Thani won’t formally recognize the
warned Thursday that there’s Taliban “anytime in the foresee-
still “no clear indication” of able future,” Raab said, “there is
when it will reopen. an important scope for engage-
ment and dialogue to test the
A team of Qatari and Turkish intentions and indeed the as-
technicians flew to Kabul on surances that have already been
Wednesday to help restart op- made by the Taliban.”
erations at the facility, which the
U.N. says is crucial to providing Those assurances range from
the country with humanitarian creating a more inclusive gov-
assistance. It remains to be seen, ernment to protecting the rights
however, whether any commer- of women to preventing inter-