We’ve been hearing worrying reports from Afghanistan as the Taliban have now seized the country's second largest city Kandahar which is the latest provincial capital to fall.

We wanted to get a deeper understanding of what is actually happening there and what it’s like to live in Afghanistan especially as a woman.

Sharifa Wasie who is from Afghanistan and now living in Dublin and Navila, also an Afghan woman living in Ireland, joined Andrea on the show...

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