Cash-strapped Kabul residents resort to selling household items

With the Taliban taking control of Afghanistan, all trade and the importation of raw materials has ground to a halt.

This photo taken on September 12, 2021 shows women buying secondhand household items at a market in the northwest neighbourhood of Khair Khana in Kabul. - Kabul's flea markets are packed full of the belongings that desperate Afghans have sold at rock-bottom prices to fund long journeys to escape the country, or just to pay for food. (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP) / TO GO WITH Afghanistan-conflict-fleamarkets,FOCUS by James EDGAR
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Sep 13, 2021
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