Germany is deporting about 30 men to Afghanistan

First deportation flight of 2024

A mass deportation of men required to leave the country to Afghanistan, originally scheduled for late May, was recently canceled because the Taliban rulers refused to cooperate. According to dpa reports, the flight was canceled after the militant Islamist de facto rulers in Kabul expressed dissatisfaction with what they viewed as a lack of willingness to engage in dialogue on the part of representatives from the German Foreign Office. The Taliban are primarily interested in sending more diplomats to the Afghan missions in Germany.

In August 2024, for the first time since the Taliban took power three years earlier, 28 male offenders were deported from Leipzig to Kabul with the help of Qatar. Meanwhile, Germany has resumed organizing deportations to Afghanistan on its own—both individual deportations via scheduled flights and group charter flights.