Afghanistan Central Bank - What Can the Central Bank Do With That?

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Half of the seven billion dollars in frozen assess from afghanistan central bank to be set aside for humanitarian assistance. The rest three half billion dollars is held back while courts consider claims for financial compensation by families of nine 11 victims. When funds were frozen, the value of theu rency in afghanistan went down radically. It's beyond my imagination that it should have come to this. Afghans are starving to death.

The US froze billions in Afghanistan’s central bank reserves when the Taliban took control. Now it’s wrestling with how to trust the Taliban with the Afghan people’s money.

This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin with help from Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Victoria Dominguez and Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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