The changing times

2004 presidential elections in Kabul.

Sandstorm during the first presidential elections after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2004: traces of the past, patient waiting in front of a polling station in Kabul, with enthusiasm and much hope the first presidential elections in the country took place. Along with the international community, the people of Afghanistan in particular hoped that a hopeful, peaceful future would emerge. Today, twenty years later, we know that things turned out even worse than anyone could have imagined.