Three countries, including Uganda, are taking Afghans

Desk report: Uganda has agreed to provide temporary shelter to 2,000 Afghan refugees after the Taliban seized power. Not only Uganda, but Albania and Kosovo have agreed to provide temporary asylum to Afghan refugees in response to US requests.The experience of sheltering people in conflict-prone areas is not new to Uganda. The country has about 1.4 million refugees fleeing South Sudan.Uganda’s Minister of State for Refugees Esther Aniakun Davinia said President Yuri Museveni had been asked by the US government to provide asylum to refugees in Afghanistan. He later allowed 2,000 Afghan refugees to enter Uganda. He said the US government would stay in Uganda for at least three months until Afghan refugees were resettled elsewhere. However, it is not yet clear when Afghan refugees will begin arriving in Uganda. The United Nations says at least 2.5 million Afghans have been displaced since the Taliban took power in May this year. 80 percent of them are women and children. According to various government and private sources, there are about 3 million Afghan refugees living in Pakistan at present. They have been around for ages. This number is increasing every year. There are about 6 lakh Afghan refugees in Iran. 30,000 in India. Six thousand in Turkey. Some six million in some European countries, and one million in the United States. In addition, many refugees have taken refuge in a few other countries. US President Joe Biden is under fire after the US-backed government fell to the Taliban in Afghanistan. Biden came to power in January this year with the identity of an experienced and skilled politician. But opposition politicians have commented that his image is no longer the same. Former President Donald Trump has directly demanded his resignation. In addition to the Republican Party, many Democrat politicians have been sharply critical of Biden. The Americans consider the manner in which the United States has withdrawn from Afghanistan as shameful. But Biden said there was nothing else to do. He made the claim in an official speech at the White House in Washington DC. The US president said he had two options in front of him in light of the current situation in Afghanistan. One is the withdrawal of US troops and the other is the deployment of more troops. But he did not want to make the same mistake as in the past. So the 7-year-old leader again claimed that his decision was correct. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who fled the country, has been blamed for the crisis.