This is one more step for humanitarian aid in Kabul. The United Arab Emirates have opened an “air bridge” to bring this aid to Afghanistan, an official at the airport in Afghanistan told AFP on Saturday (September 11th). Kabul.
“Since that day and so far, we have received and managed 11 flights almost daily, i.e. 255 tonnes of medical aid and food items.“, explains Brahim Moarafi, regional director of the company GAAC, responsible for managing the activities of the Kabul airport. On Saturday, two planes from the Emirates unloaded dozens of aid boxes containing meat, powdered milk, oil and medical supplies.
The United Arab Emirates, land of transit for Afghans in exile
Like other wealthy Gulf states, the Emirates, close allies of the United States, have served as a staging area for evacuation flights of foreigners and Afghans attempting to flee Afghanistan since the Taliban returned on August 15. .
More than two-thirds of Afghans and foreigners who fled Afghanistan on evacuation flights landed in the Emirates and Qatar before heading to their final destination. The Emirates are currently hosting the former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani, in exile after the Taliban took power.
Resumption of certain commercial flights
Another important step this Saturday, with the announcement by the Pakistani national company PIA of the resumption, on Monday, of its commercial flights between Islamabad and Kabul, interrupted just after August 15.
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