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Why the US is parking local Afghan support staff in third countries
The US’s first local Afghan support staff have arrived in Uganda.
They will be assessed there to see if they and their families traveling with them are eligible for US visas.
- Jan D. Walter
- Deutsche Welle
It is unsure if they will ever reach the US.
The United States and its allies have brought more than 100,000 people out of Kabul since the militant Islamist Taliban took power in mid-August.
The majority have been flown out by the American military and have initially been distributed around various military bases in the Middle East and Europe.
The US military has stated that by Thursday evening, 14,500 people had arrived from Afghanistan at Ramstein in Germany alone, the…