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Afghan banks 'approaching collapse'
UN warns banking system could crumble within 6 months
The Afghanistan representative of the United Nations Development Programme, Abdallah Dardari, warns that the country's banking sector is 'approaching collapse rapidly'.
Also in the programme: as Venezuela's regional elections deliver sweeping success for the governing Socialist Party, we'll ask if the opposition was right to end its boycott; and why did migrants from Iraqi-Kurdistan decide to return after attempting to cross into the EU from Belarus?
(Photo: Afghans line up outside a bank to take out their money after Taliban takeover in Kabul, Afghanistan on 1 September 2021. Credit: Reuters/Stringer)
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