TO GO WITH Afghanistan-unrest-economy-mining-NATO,FOCUS by Guillaume LAVALLÉE In this photograph taken on December 29, 2014, an Afghan money changer (C) sits with his Afghani bank notes and coins at a currency exchange market along the roadside in Kabul. The Taliban insurgency may still be raging but the poor state of the economy could pose a bigger threat to Afghanistan's long-term viability, and huge mineral reserves are unlikely to offer a quick fix. In Kabul's Sarayee Shahzada market, moneychangers wave thick bundles of Afghanis, dollars, rupees and dirhams, but the customers are not packing the alleyways like they used to and business is well down on two years ago. AFP PHOTO / Wakil Kohsar (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images)
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