Failure to create safe routes ‘forcing Afghans to make perilous journeys to UK’

Afghan resettlement scheme still not up and running four months after fall of Kabul, says Refugee Council

The UK's failure to create safe routes for vulnerable Afghans is forcing thousands to make the gut-wrenching" decision to embark on perilous, life-threatening journeys" to seek safety in Britain, the Refugee Council has warned.

Four months since the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in August, causing mass displacement of hundreds of thousands, the government's Afghan citizens resettlement scheme was not yet up and running, the charity said.