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UN hopes to raise humanitarian funds for the Afghan people

12/09/2021 GMT

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Afghanistan conference: UN hopes to raise humanitarian funds for the Afghan people

Ahead of a UN donor's conference on Afghanistan on Monday, a former finance minister tells us what are the country’s most pressing needs and how can the world help.
 
Also, a historian’s take on the Taleban running Afghanistan.
 
And the curator of a new Vermeer exhibition in Germany will tell us all about the mystery of a restored painting of the Dutch master which already has stolen the show.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are Myriam Francois, Franco-British journalist and film maker; and Ian Black, Visiting Senior Fellow, Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics.

(Image: United Nations briefing on Afghanistan. Credit:  Mandatory Credit: CHINE NOUVELLE/SIPA/REX/Shutterstock)

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