Afghans flee to Kandahar city camp as Taliban advances

Tens of thousands have been uprooted by fighting between the Taliban and government forces.

Mohammad Sadeq returned to his home on the outskirts of Kandahar city this week to discover it had new occupants – the Taliban. “They didn’t even allow me to enter,” he told the AFP news agency on Tuesday at a camp for displaced people (IDPs) inside Afghanistan’s second-biggest city. Sadeq is one of tens of thousands of Afghans recently uprooted by the fighting between the Taliban and government forces, which has intensified as the last foreign troops complete their withdrawal after a 20-year occupation.