Mazar-i-Sharif (Afghanistan) (AFP) – “It is very difficult to be a girl”, sighs Halima Mohammadi as she reacts to a new ban imposed by Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities: the beauty parlours were given a month to shut down. The order will force the closure of thousands of businesses run by women — often the only source of income for households — and outlaw one of the few remaining opportunities for them to socialise away from home.
