This is the Guardian.

Today, months since the Taliban took over,

what is the state of Afghanistan,

and of the UK government's efforts

to evacuate and resettle vulnerable people?

One of the strange things arriving in Taliban Afghanistan

is how in fundamental terms, everything has changed,

but on the surface, it looks very unchanged.

Emma Graham Harrison spent years as the Guardian's correspondent

in Kabul as Western forces and the Afghan government

fought a Taliban insurgency.

She's just come back from another visit.

This time, the Western forces are gone,

and it's the Taliban in charge.

The streets are definitely less active than they used to be,

because of both economic crisis

and what's going on, there's fewer women,

their dress, perhaps more conservatively than they were,

but women aren't just wearing burgers.

Nearly five months into Taliban rule,

Afghanistan is in the grip of what the UN has described

as one of the worst economic meltdowns ever recorded.

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