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authorities have announced the reopening of state-run universities in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and several other cities, but say only male students will be allowed to attend.
"According to a decision by the Supreme Council for Higher Education," reads a short statement from the Taliban’s Ministry of Higher Education, "studies of the male students at governmental higher education institutions in the colder provinces will officially start from [March 6] of the current year."
Schools and universities go on annual winter break in about 24 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces.
The Islamist government banned higher education for female students last year, saying women had not appropriately observed gender-based religious restrictions under the prior government, which was backed by the United States.