https://gandhara.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-red-cross-maurer/31444726.html

The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) arrived in Afghanistan on September 5 for a three-day visit.

Peter Maurer plans to visit medical facilities, rehabilitation centers for victims of violence and disease, as well as ICRC staffers.

The relief group said in a statement that Maurer also plans to meet with local Afghan authorities.

“Afghans have suffered from 40 years of conflict and they now face years of work to heal and recover. The International Committee of the Red Cross is dedicated to staying here to help that recovery,” Maurer said.

He added that the future of Afghanistan relies on the continued “investment from the outside world.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/soldiers-say-guinea-constitution-govt-dissolved-apparent-coup-2021-09-05/?rpc=401&

CONAKRY, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Soldiers who staged an uprising in Guinea's capital on Sunday said in a short broadcast on the West African nation's state television that they have dissolved the constitution and the government in an apparent coup.

An unidentified soldier, draped in Guinea's national flag and surrounded by eight other armed soldiers, said they planned to form a transitional government and would give further details later.

Heavy gunfire broke out near the presidential palace in the capital Conakry on Sunday morning, with several sources saying an elite national army unit led by a former French legionnaire, Mamady Doumbouya, was behind the unrest.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/09/05/mccaul_taliban_has_taken_six_airplanes_of_americans_and_afghans_hostage.html

The top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Michael McCaul, told "FOX News Sunday" that the Taliban is holding six airplanes worth of American citizens and pro-U.S. Afghans "hostage" at Mazar-i-Sharif International Airport in northern Afghanistan for at least "a couple of days."

"They've sat at the airport for the last couple days, these planes, and they're not allowed to leave," McCaul said. (video)

https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/570907-maryland-governor-were-getting-mixed-messagings-from-biden

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said on Sunday that his administration is getting “mixed messagings” from the Biden White House when it comes to COVID-19 booster shots.

“I mean we're getting some mixed messagings out of the administration, out of the CDC, the FDA and the White House and, you know we need clear guidance on these booster shots because it undermines the credibility of it,” Hogan said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”