McCauley Wycliff
Member
Afghanistan Evacuations: Kenyans who are stuck in Afghanistan are literally on their own. This is after the government said that Kenyans who are in Afghanistan will be evacuated by the employers who took them there.
The government, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that it is not aware of the number of Kenyans in the country because it has no diplomatic presence there. “Kenya has neither diplomatic presence nor accreditation to Afghanistan,” Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Macharia Kamau.
Mr. Kamau said that some Kenyans had gone to Afghanistan as private contractors or legal experts for agencies like the International Development Law Organisation (IDLO).
“We did a letter to IDLO country office and their headquarters in Rome. We are following up to find out if there are known Kenyans stranded there through the High Commission in Pakistan,” he said. He added that the government was not expecting any Kenyans to be in the troubled country running their own private businesses.
Chaos erupted at Kabul’s airport as thousands of Afghans were left uncertain of their safety and livelihood after Taliban forces in Afghanistan occupied the capital city. In the last few weeks, Taliban forces rapidly took control of provincial capitals and eventually descended on Kabul at a faster rate than any government officials expected, putting thousands of Afghans, particularly those who assisted U.S. forces, at risk