Donors pledging billions in aid to Afghanistan face a challenge: Navigating the Taliban

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Despite the oversight mechanisms tied to aid funds, however, “foreign and humanitarian aid donated to states will get into the wrong hands,” warned Andreas Krieg, an associate professor at King’s College London. “Under the [previous Ashraf] Ghani government much of these funds were expropriated to fund a kleptocratic regime.”

“In the developing world funds usually get misused by regimes. The Taliban are just another of these regimes,” Krieg said, adding, “The answer is not ‘no foreign aid’ because that will undermine any effort to reign the Taliban in and moderate them.”

Period	17 Sept 2021
Held at	CNBC, United States