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Taliban bans windows overlooking places ‘usually used by women’ to stop women from being seen at home.

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Afghanistan’s Taliban supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, has issued an order that new residential buildings should be constructed without windows looking onto “places usually used by women” and said that existing windows with such views should be blocked to prevent “obscene acts”.

According to a statement released by the Taliban government spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, new buildings should not have windows through which it is possible to see “the courtyard, kitchen, neighbour’s well and other places usually used by women”.

“Seeing women working in kitchens, in courtyards or collecting water from wells can lead to obscene acts,” according to the decree posted by government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid on social media platform X.

Municipal authorities and other relevant departments would have to monitor construction sites to ensure it is not possible to see into neighbours’ homes.

In the event that such windows exist, owners would be encouraged to build a wall or obstruct the view “to avoid nuisances caused to neighbours”, the decree states.

Since the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021, women have been progressively erased from public spaces.

Taliban authorities have banned post-primary education for girls and women, restricted employment and blocked access to parks and other public places.

A recent law even prohibits women from singing or reciting poetry in public under the Taliban government’s ultra-strict application of Islamic law. It also encourages them to “veil” their voices and bodies outside the home.

Some local radio and television stations have also stopped broadcasting female voices.

Heather Barr, the interim deputy director of women’s rights at Human Rights Watch, told The Independent: “People have talked about the Taliban metaphorically erasing women, but increasingly, it is not metaphorical at all.

“They have already ordered that women’s voices shouldn’t be heard in public, and now they are essentially stopping women from even seeing the world.”

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Anambra police arrest 33 yrs old man over Rap!ng teenagers and murder of a teenage boy in Nnewi. ‎

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‎A 33-year-old man, Chidiebere Mbene, has been apprehended by the Anambra Police Command for allegedly raping many female teenagers and 15-year-old teenager, Micheal Nwokedi, in the state.
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‎Mbene was apprehended barely three days after killing the male teenager in Unubi, Nnewi South Local Government Area of the state.
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‎Before perpetrating the act, it was gathered that the suspect had allegedly raped the elder sister of the deceased before he fled the scene.
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‎The Commissioner of Police, Anambra Command, CP Ikioye Orutugu, who confirmed the arrest to newsmen on Friday, commended the Nnewi community for collaborating with the Police in apprehending the suspect
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Some operatives of Agunechemba are armed robbers, kidnappers – Soludo’s security aide

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‎The Special Adviser to Governor Chukwuma Soludo on community security, Ken Emeakayi, has lamented the alleged infiltration of criminally – minded people into the state’s newly established Agunechemba security outfit.
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‎Reacting to reports that some operatives of Agunechemba are now extorting people, using guns, Emeakayi said that every member of the outfit would be properly verified, to fish out the bad ones in the system.
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‎He also warned about the improper conduct of some of the operatives who act as if they were above the law, adding that a situation whereby they extort people they are expected to protect, is unacceptable.
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‎He said, “The reason the governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, established Agunechemba and Operation Udo ga achi, is to drive away criminals in the state. It is not for the operatives to start tormenting people they are expected to protect.
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‎“We have found out that some of the people work as Agunechemba during the day and become kidnappers and armed robbers at night
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‎“Some of the operatives claim that they have not been paid and that is because they have refused to present themselves for verification as required by law. They have been dodging from this verification exercise since January.
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‎”Those who want to be paid should go for profiling to enable us know if they are actually members of Agunechemba and to ensure that they do not have questionable character.
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‎“Very soon, anybody who claims to be a security operative in any community in Anambra State without subjecting himself to the profiling process, will be treated like a criminal because such a person has something to hide.
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‎“The Anambra State Homeland Security law is very clear on the issue of knowing where every gun in the state is at any point in time and those keeping them.
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‎We must know the full identity of everyone who claims to be a security operative in the state.
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‎“We are, therefore, pleading that people should be alert and expose any shortcoming they discover on the part of the operatives.”
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If you can’t support your husband financially, be submissive. You can’t be broke and lack home training at the same time – Nigerian man tells wives

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A Nigerian businessman, Onyelike Darlington, has advised women to at least be submissive if they can’t support their husbands financially.
“If you can’t support your husband financially, at least be submissive. You can’t be broke & lack home training at the same time,” he wrote in a Facebook post on Thursday.

 

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