Afghanistan risks becoming a forgotten crisis unless the Taliban reopens schools for girls, warns Achim Steiner, the head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), following a two-day visit to Kabul. The hardline Islamists sparked outrage last week after ordering girls' secondary schools to shut down just hours after allowing them to reopen for the first time since seizing power seven months ago. "Further delays (...) would in fact affect the way that the international community sees itself engaging and committing to working with the people of Afghanistan," Steiner says. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES