World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

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

www.aljazeera.com

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

www.aljazeera.com

World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

The restriction on poppy cultivation has decimated a key trade for hundreds of thousands of farmers and labourers.

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China came with some money.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taliban-join-chinas-belt-road-forum-elevating-ties-2023-10-14/
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  Similar to how they did the same when we paid them to back in the late 90s.

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