All students and staff at Afghanistan’s only girls’ boarding school flee to Rwanda

The move came days after the Taliban ousted the government in Afghanistan, where girls and women were banned from being educated when the Islamist militants were last in power. “Last week, we completed the departure from Kabul of nearly 250 students, faculty, staff, and family members,” said Shabana Basij-Rasikh, who co-founded the School of Leadership Afghanistan (SOLA) in the Afghan capital.”Everyone is en route, by way of Qatar, to the nation of Rwanda where we intend to begin a semester abroad for our entire student body,” Basij-Rasikh stated in a She was six when the Taliban came to power and was enrolled in a network of secret classrooms to complete her education. “I was scared. I didn’t want to continue. I didn’t want to be killed by the Taliban. My parents, they were always the ones who kept pushing,” she told The new arrivals will temporarily stay in the East African country before being resettled elsewhere.Uganda will host “at-risk Afghan Nationals and other Nationals who are in transit to the United States of America and other destinations worldwide,” the statement read. Uganda will host 2,000 Afghan refugees for three months following a request from the US, according to the Minister of State for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, Esther Anyakun Davina.CNN’s Larry Madowo contributed to this report