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Shabana Basij-Rasikh leads the School of Leadership of Afghanistan that's now based in Rwanda. SOLA relocated after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan five years ago. The school provides education for Afghan girls who face restrictions at home. Classes will begin on the new campus later this month. SOLA also launched an online platform to reach more girls using smartphones. SOLAx offers classes based on the Afghan curriculum and now has 41,000 students worldwide. Basij-Rasikh emphasizes the importance of global support and aims to return to Afghanistan one day. She remains committed to empowering Afghan girls and hopes they will lead future change in Afghanistan. Basij-Rasikh does this despite threats to her safety.

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A North Carolina district attorney says a 17-year-old girl who recorded a livestream of a shooting that killed three people at a San Diego mosque and who disseminated the attackers’ white-supremacist writings has been charged with murder by aiding and abetting. The charges were announced Monday at a news conference. Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill says the girl was arrested last week and indicted by a grand jury Monday, just before she was due to begin the school year. The girl's attorney says in an email that his client is innocent of the charges. The teen was identified in court records as Sarah L. Santiago.