When Afghanistan elected a new president just over a year ago, Romal Shafaq's hopes were high. Despite a string of Taliban attacks in the Afghan capital, he and his business partner bet on boom times for their men’s wear store, whose 14 brightly colored mannequins marked it as a “cool” new place. “We are going to make our country – someone has to build it,” the young entrepreneur said proudly at the time. But today, those dreams have been replaced with a river of Afghan refugees to Europe that is second in number only to Syrians. Recommended: How well do you know Afghanistan? Take our quiz. Afghanistan's ongoing struggle to move beyond decades of war have left the country's young...
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