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Qatar evacuates female students and media personnel from Afghanistan

Qatar evacuates female students and media personnel from Afghanistan

The Peninsula
Saturday, August 21, 2021 09:45:45 AM UTC

Doha: Qatar will continue the evacuation missions in Afghanistan, stated the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on her Twitter account.  I can only speak on Qatar evacuation missions, they will continue! In the past 72 hours we evacuated over 300 mostly female students & over 200 media personnel; many of them with their families & kids who are now safe in comfortable accommodation in Doha. https://t.co/0F6yeFFDPX pic.twitter.com/L6IAoVraNS

In a tweet on Friday, August 20, HE Lolwah bint Rashid Al Khater added that in the past 72 hours Qatar has evacuated over 300 mostly female students and over 200 media professionals, many of them with their families and kids are now safe in comfortable accommodation in Doha.   This came in response to a tweet by CNN Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward about 10,000 stuck at Kabul Airport. 
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