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Rick Noack

@ricknoack.bsky.social

@washingtonpost Kabul Bureau Chief covering Afghanistan and Pakistan

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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · last yr.

Mary, a Kenyan HIV outreach worker, has 4 children of her own. When a colleague was murdered, she took in the 4 orphans, one HIV+. In Jan, the US suspended the programs supporting the family. The kids were thrown out of school; today, they were evicted. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Trump’s PEPFAR cuts upend the lives of Kenyan families battling HIV

U.S. aid allowed Mary, a former sex worker, to do HIV outreach work and support eight children. Her future, and the U.S.-led fight against HIV, are now in doubt.

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Matthew Hay Brown@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · last yr.

EUROPE REACTS “Vance and his mates clearly aren’t fit to run a group chat, let alone the world’s strongest military force” They “loathe Europe (as they try to extort money out of it)” “It has to make our security services nervous about the intelligence we’re sharing with them” wapo.st/41VIW3e

For Europeans, Signal chat gives unfiltered view of Trump team’s disdain

European officials saw the screenshots as more proof in private of what the Trump team has indicated in public: scorn for America’s traditional allies.

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Matthew Hay Brown@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · last yr.

TRUMP'S HALT TO REFUGEE ADMISSIONS means thousands of Afghan former allies and workers who have been waiting in Pakistan for relocation to the United States could now be sent back to Afghanistan and the Taliban @ricknoack.bsky.social reports www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Afghans promised a future in the U.S. now fear deportation from Pakistan

Thousands of Afghans set to be relocated from Pakistan to the United States before President Donald Trump halted refugee arrivals are now at risk of arrest and deportation.

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Rick Noack@ricknoack.bsky.social · 2y ago

Pakistan’s leadership was frequently accused of harboring or tolerating Afghan Taliban leaders and fighters during the 20-year Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. Now Pakistan finds itself on the other end of a very similar situation. Our latest: wapo.st/40piXBG

Tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan escalate amid border clashes

Pakistan carried out airstrikes inside Afghanistan, which Islamabad blames for harboring extremists who have been waging an insurgency in Pakistan.

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Rachel Chason@rchason.bsky.social · 2y ago

Last month in Burkina Faso, I met the president of Africa Initiative, who let me spend a few days with the group — giving a window from the ground into one of Russia’s main conduits for soft power in the region Free link to the story here & will thread some reporting highlights: wapo.st/4gbItPX

Inside the effort to market Russia and Putin to Africans

The Africa Initiative is part of an opaque network of groups that Western officials and analysts say the Kremlin uses to spread Russian influence in Africa.

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Rick Noack@ricknoack.bsky.social · 2y ago

For the first time since the Taliban takeover, Afghans living outside the country have begun flocking back to their homeland. For Afghan women who have had to live under Taliban rule, the enthusiasm of visiting relatives can be puzzling and, increasingly, frustrating. Gift link: wapo.st/4f01rrW

Women despair over Taliban rules, but many Afghan returnees don’t see it

Afghans living abroad are flocking back to visit relatives for the first time since the Taliban takeover. Draconian restrictions on women are not top of mind.

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