Nargis Momand Hasanzai is a journalist for RFE/RL's Radio Azadi.
The Taliban has ordered all taxi drivers in Afghanistan to change the color of their vehicles from yellow to turquoise. The decision has angered taxi drivers and residents, who say the move is unnecessary, considering the more significant issues the country is facing.
Amid the major humanitarian and economic crisis gripping the country. In recent months, the Taliban has rounded up thousands of people who were begging on the streets. Now, many people are going door-to-door in search of alms.
Mahbouba Seraj, an Afghan women’s rights activist, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year. Even as many activists fled Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover, Siraj remained in Kabul to operate a network of women’s shelters.
!["The problem is not going to be solved if we don't sit down and talk [with the Taliban]," Mahbouba Serajshe, seen here in Kabul in April 2021, told RFE/RL's Radio Azadi. "We must have a country in which we can all live in."](https://gdb.rferl.org/42fab024-d8af-4aef-ae7f-305332ef6fbe_cx0_cy10_cw0_w100_r1.jpg)
!["The problem is not going to be solved if we don't sit down and talk [with the Taliban]," Mahbouba Serajshe, seen here in Kabul in April 2021, told RFE/RL's Radio Azadi. "We must have a country in which we can all live in."](https://gdb.rferl.org/42fab024-d8af-4aef-ae7f-305332ef6fbe_cx0_cy10_cw0_w66_r1.jpg)