The United Nations (UN) aid chief Martin Griffiths will visit Afghanistan in the coming weeks and meet the highest possible officials within the Taliban-led administration after it banned female aid workers, a senior UN official said. “We regret to see that there is already an impact of this decision on our programs,” Ramiz Alakbarov, UN humanitarian aid coordinator in Afghanistan, told reporters in New York.

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