Civilloquy
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
NightOwl@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Afghan opium poppy cultivation plunges by 95 percent under Taliban: UN

www.aljazeera.com

external-link
message-square
9
fedilink
79
external-link

Afghan opium poppy cultivation plunges by 95 percent under Taliban: UN

www.aljazeera.com

NightOwl@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
message-square
9
fedilink
The restriction on poppy cultivation has decimated a key trade for hundreds of thousands of farmers and labourers.
  • auth@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 years ago

    What changed

    • Zastyion345@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      13
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      China came with some money.

      https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taliban-join-chinas-belt-road-forum-elevating-ties-2023-10-14/

      • SeaJ@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        2 years ago

        Similar to how they did the same when we paid them to back in the late 90s.

    • lntl@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      The US pulled out

    • regul@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      2 years ago

      They’re the government now and are funded through taxes, so they can afford to be truer to their own beliefs.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      The war ended. They always said it was a temporary measure to raise funds for their insurgency, and I guess they meant it.

World News@lemmy.ml

worldnews@lemmy.ml

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !worldnews@lemmy.ml

News from around the world!

Rules:

  • Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc

  • No NSFW content

  • No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 544 users / day
  • 1.52K users / week
  • 4.33K users / month
  • 11.1K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 36.9K subscribers
  • 14.3K Posts
  • 80.4K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
  • Rumblestiltskin@lemmy.ml
  • Jack.@lemmy.ml
  • zephyreks@lemmy.ml
  • OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
  • BE: 0.19.5
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org