Africa Business Radio

The Pentagon has announced that the final US military flight has left the Afghan capital officially ending the United States’s 20-year war in Afghanistan after a chaotic evacuation effort.General Kenneth McKenzie, commander of US Central Command, says that the US evacuated 79,000 people from Kabul, including 6,000 American citizens, since August 14, a day before the Taliban took control of the city.He says the withdrawal signifies both the end of the military component of the evacuation but also the end of the nearly 20-year mission that began in Afghanistan shortly after September 11, 2001.