Hidden gender: Life as a woman in Afghanistan
(WorldNews Africa)

PHIL JOHNSON/STUFF With a lengthy history of invasion and conflict, Afghanistan is one of the world's poorest countries. The traffic in Kabul is angry and unpredictable and waits for no one. Yet braving it at a frenzied roundabout in this city of six million is a woman in a full, dirty burqa, begging; with a baby in her arms, and holding onto a toddler. There are no lanes, just confidence and hope, and she`s in the middle of the road, saying nothing, but her face is pained - you can tell by the way her eyes are pleading through their mesh grill. The traffic has swept us past her, there`s no chance to give her money. All we can do is wonder what horror leaves her so desperate she must...