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Afghanistan's public universities opened on Wednesday with female students allowed back on campus for the first time since the Taliban took over the country l

The UN top envoy in Afghanistan on Sunday expressed deep concern about the well-being of disappeared women activists.

The UN top envoy in Afghanistan on Sunday expressed deep concern about the well-being of disappeared women activists.

MIHTARLAM, Afghanistan — Some public universities opened in Afghanistan on Wednesday for the first time since the Taliban seized power in August, with a trickle of women attending classes that officials said would be segregated by sex.Most secondary schools for girls and all public universities were shuttered when the hardline Islamist group stormed back to power, sparking

Universities in Laghman, Nangarhar, Kandahar, Nimroz, Farah and Helmand open first time since Taliban took power...

Women were permitted to attend classes on condition that they were separated from male students

By Ehsan Popalzai and Hande Atay Alam, CNN Afghanistan's public universities opened on Wednesday with female students allowed back on campus for the first

JALALABAD (Reuters) - Afghanistans public universities opened on Wednesday for the first time since the Taliban took over the country last year, with female students joining their male counterparts heading back to campus. The Taliban administration has not officially announced its plan for female university students, but education officials told Reuters women were permitted to attend classes on the condition that they were separated from male students. A Reuters witness in the eastern city of Ja...

Afghan universities reopen to female students

Public universities in warmer provinces of Afghanistan reopened Wednesday to both female and male students for the first time since the Islamist Taliban