Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

Month: November 2015

Before the Paris Conference: The state of Afghanistan’s climate and its adaption capability

Thomas Ruttig • Ryskeldi Satke •

Climate change is already having a severe impact on Afghans’ daily lives – but this challenge is often over-shadowed by what seem to be more-urgent problems: war and the economic crisis. Therefore, the reports submitted by the Afghan government for the Paris climate conference starting today, 30 November 2015 (and President Ashraf Ghani speaking in […]

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Analysts slam US account of MSF hospital strike

AAN •

AFP, 30 November 2015 Extensive quotes from Kate Clark’s analysis for AAN of the US military report on the airstrike against the MSF Kunduz clinic – that “cited mistakes so ‘reckless’ that observers said they left open the unsettling question of whether those involved had ripped up their own rulebook in a chaotic effort to […]

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Krever flere svar etter sykehusangrep i Afghanistan

AAN •

VG, 30 November 2015 The Norwegian website (or daily?) quotes AAN’s Kate Clark on the US report about the ‘mistaken’ bombing of the MSK clinic in Kunduz: – Spørsmålet gjenstår om prosedyrene ble oversett med vilje, skriver senioranalytiker Kate Clark hos Afghanistan Analysts Network. 

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Afghanistan: Wie stark ist der IS?

Thomas Ruttig •

Deutschlandfunk, 30 November 2015 In this article on the German quality radio’s website scrutinising the strength of Daesh in Afghanistan, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted various times: Thomas Ruttig, Mitbegründer des Afghanistan Analysts Network, einer Forschungseinrichtung, findet dagegen die Kabuler Regierung übertreibe das Risiko: “Ich glaube die Bedrohung ist relativ begrenzt. Meines Erachtens gibt es […]

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The main corridor of the MSF hospital in Kunduz after the 3 October airstrikes. Victor J Blue/MSF

Ripping Up the Rule Book? US investigation into the MSF hospital attack

Kate Clark •

The commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, General John Campbell, has said the deadly air strike on the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz in the early hours of 3 October 2015 was “a direct result of avoidable human error compounded by process and equipment failures.” The US military investigation, moreover, found […]

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ISIS isn’t ravaging Afghanistan. But who wants to take a chance

AAN •

Catch News, 26 November 2015 In this refreshingly non-alarmist article scrutinising the scope of Daesh in Afghanistan, AAN’s Borhan Osman is extensively quoted: According to Osman Borhan, an analyst at a Kabul-based Afghanistan analyst network, “however loosely you define the presence or activity of ISIS, it has not gone beyond a maximum six provinces since […]

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General acknowledges US airstrike on Kunduz hospital was ‘direct result of human error’

AAN •

Stars and Stripes, 25 November 2015 In this article about the US investigation report about the bombing of a clinic in Kunduz, AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted as saying: Kate Clark, a researcher with the Afghan Analysts Network, said Wednesday’s briefing only raised more questions about the American rules of engagement in Afghanistan, which Schoffner […]

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Toward Fragmentation? Mapping the post-Omar Taleban

Borhan Osman •

The Taleban movement has entered its third decade with infighting threatening its – up till now ­– remarkable unity. The killing of Mansur Dadullah during clashes between Taleban factions in Zabul on 12 November 2015 highlighted the scope of this unprecedented discord. Dadullah had been deputy leader of a newly-formed, breakaway faction of the Taleban. […]

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Facebook-Kampagne gegen Flucht nach Deutschland

Thomas Ruttig •

Deutschlandfunk, 24 November 2015 In this article about the refugee exodus from Afghanistan on the German broadcasters website, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted on German threats to cut development aid for Afghanistan if the government rejects to take back deported citizens and about purported figures of Afghans leaving the country (in German): In Berlin wird […]

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What our silence on Kabul’s protests says about our grief for Paris

AAN •

Scroll.in, 23 November 2015 Discussing the silence of the mainstream Indian press on the recent Zabul Seven protests in Kabul, the blogger quotes AAN’s Martine van Bijlert, on the Afghan mood: Writing on the demonstration for the Afghanistan Analysts Network, researcher and writer Martine Van Bijlert noted that “Afghanistan may be a violent country, but it […]

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Afghani remains in free fall as food & fuel prices shoot up

AAN •

ToloNews, 22 November 2015 The Afghan currency has lost 11 percent of its value against the US dollars and the Pakistani rupee in the past four months – falling to the lowest rate since 2001 –, while rates of food items and other commodities increased by 18 percent and fuel by 40 percent.

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Former Guantanamo Inmate Leads The Afghan Fight Against IS

AAN •

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 22 November 2015 A portrait of Haji Ghalib Mujahid, the district governor of Achin in Nangrahar the area in Afghanistan that has the most IS problems.

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