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Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Full_Report (pdf* format - New security arrangements to be adopted in aftermath of attack on UN guesthouse - 2010 Humanitarian Action Plan to be...
The New York Times examines the use of small, direct grants to improve health and development in Afghanistan. The article focuses on efforts in "Jurm, a valley in the windswept mountainous province of Badakhshan, in the...
From ANI Jurm (Afghanistan), Nov.13: Since arriving in Afghanistan in 2001, the United States and its Western allies have spent billions of dollars on development projects. Much of that money has been funnelled through the...
Sanaullah Tasal Having declared during the election campaign that Afghanistan was the central front in the fight against terrorism – the war on which America should have been focusing all along – Obama took some quick steps to...
With his 9mm Smith and Wesson at the ready, the Afghan police chief strode through the bazaar of rickety wooden stalls, grabbed a hapless shopkeeper by the hair and slapped him across the face three times. One officer hit a man...
Part 2: Just say "No" to drugs -- and weapons... I just got an e-mail from my secret deep-throat covert expert source on Afghanistan and this was an occasion of note. "And why is that?" you might ask. Here's why. Unlike the ...
From PRI's The World 02 November, 2009 10:53:00 (Image: flickr user: mahalie (cc: by-sa)) Badakhshan in northeast Afghanistan now ranked second worst in the world in maternal mortality -- how NGOs are stepping in to help....
Afghan warlords are earning millions of dollars from North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces to guard forward operating bases and supply convoys. These ruthless private armies are reviled by much of the public, and are likely...
KABUL, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Hindu Kush mountain region in northeast of Afghanistan on Thursday night. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said the earthquake measured magnitude 6.0 on the...
KABUL (AP) — Afghan election officials said Thursday that there will be more voting centers for next week's presidential runoff than in the fraud-tainted first-round vote in August, rejecting U.N. recommendations to eliminate...
