UAE says Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is in the country

KABUL

: The United Arab Emirates says it has accepted Afghan President

Ashraf Ghani

and his family for “humanitarian considerations.”

Ghani fled Afghanistan just as the Taliban approached Kabul.

The statement carried by the

UAE

's state-run

WAM

news agency on Wednesday did not say where

Ghani

was in the country. It quoted the country's

Foreign Ministry

in a one-sentence statement.