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Mayor Zafari Ghafari bestowing an award

Mayor Zarifa Ghafari: Fighting for women’s rights, security, universal access to education and economic development in a war-zone

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme, interviews Mayor Zarifa Ghafari, the first female mayor of Maidan Shahr, capital city of a province in Afghanistan and voted as one of the BBC 100 Women of 2019. Andrea Macdonald comments: The current war in Afghanistan began with the United States invasion on 7 October 2001. It has cost […]