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An Afghan evacuee who lived in a hotel in Yorkshire for almost a year has described feeling like her family’s “lives are paused” as they await news of permanent accommodation from the Home Office.
One year on from the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, we talk to some of the people who escaped to the UK.
Marwa Koofi (pictured), 21, fled Kabul, Afghanistan when the city fell to the Taliban and has lived in hotels in Selby, North Yorkshire and Crawley, West Sussex for a year.
An Afghan refugee says she has spent 11 months in a hotel since coming the UK and is losing hope.
LONDON: Afghan refugees who arrived in Britain following the evacuation of Kabul are being separated from family members and moved around the country to alleviate a shortage of hotel rooms, UK newspaper The Times reported on Saturday. Major hotel chains, including Ibis, Arora and Britannia, have axed government refugee contracts in a bid to attract regular guests.