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Newsday: 10/11/2021 06:06 GMT : Fall of Afghanistan: widespread corruption blamed

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10/11/2021 06:06 GMT 

10/11/2021 06:06 GMT : Fall of Afghanistan: widespread corruption blamed

Fall of Afghanistan: widespread corruption blamed

BBC World Service - Newsday, Fall of Afghanistan: widespread corruption blamed

Former Afghan finance minister blames defeat to Taliban - in part - on corrupt generals

Afghanistan's former finance minister has blamed the fall of the government on corrupt generals pocketing money to pay phantom soldiers and taking payments from the Taliban.

Corruption at the heart of the  Afghan government that went on for decades, so claims the country's former finance minister. Could this be one of the reasons why the country fell so quickly to the Taliban?

With more than 600 people now dying from Covid every-day in Ukraine the EU removes the country from its Covid safe list.

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