Afghanistan: How Afghani Instagram influencers are chronicling suffering of residents

Updated : Aug 16, 2021 13:09
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Editorji News Desk

With the Taliban takeover of Kabul, there have been more eyes on Afghanistan from the international community.

While news outlets have been reporting in-depth, it is social media that people are turning to, to get their ground reports.

Afghani influencers are shedding behind their sponsored posts to make a place in their feed for what they are calling 'the fall of their country'

Ghazal Sadat, the founder of Gam Cosmetics and one of the most followed Afghanis on Instagram with over 800k followers has taken to posting harrowing photos of her country as they are coming in.

Khyber Khan, a creative, has been flooding his Instagram stories with literal updates from the streets of Kabul as he shows his 35k followers what the situation is like for residents of the now Taliban led country.

Far from the location native Afghani settled in Canada Sabrina Wassel, a makeup artist, has used her 131k large following to not only raise awareness but also funds to help aid relief for her country.

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