Heavy snowfall has covered Kabul this winter and the nights have been bitterly cold, each hint of spring soon disappearing under more grey skies and bleak forecasts. In the city’s refugee camps, parents are waking up to find their children frozen to death. Roads, potholed and broken, are thick blocks of ice. Entire neighbourhoods are without water and the mountains that dominate the horizon are shrouded in fog. It feels like the capital is in stasis as people wait for the ground to thaw and the sun or rain to arrive.
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