Pregnant reporter fights New Zealand’s government to come home from Kabul

Ms Bellis, who is 25 weeks pregnant with a daughter, said she has sent dozens of documents to her government in her battle to return home, so far to no avail

Charlotte Bellis with her partner Jim Huylebroek in Kabul, Afghanistan. Picture: Charlotte Bellis via AP

A pregnant reporter has chosen Afghanistan as a temporary base for her uphill fight to return home to New Zealand because of her country’s stringent Covid-19 entry rules.

Charlotte Bellis, 35, is expecting her first child with her partner Jim Huylebroek, a Belgian freelance photographer who has lived in Afghanistan for two years.