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Covid-19 in Afghanistan (7): The effects of the pandemic on the private lives and safety of women at home

Covid-19 has had an alarming effect on Afghanistan, exacerbating poverty and reducing access to health care, in addition to the deaths and illness. The pandemic has also had specific consequences for women, particularly during lockdown, including increased levels of domestic violence and reduced access to schools and medical care. AAN’s Khadija Hossaini discovered that women […]

Khadija Hossaini • Economy, Development, Environment

With intermittent fighting and rocket attacks throughout the day, election workers in the Awal Baba school voting centre in Maidan Shahr, had little work to do. Photo: Andrew Quilty, 2019.

AAN Dossier XXVII: Afghanistan’s contested 2019 presidential election and its aftermath

A year on from Afghanistan’s fourth presidential poll since the fall of the Taleban regime, AAN is publishing all our reporting on the election and its aftermath in a new dossier. Our 37 AAN reports comprise coverage of the run-up to the election; on-the-day reporting; analysis of the controversies over counting, verifying and announcing the result, including our […]

AAN Team • Dossiers

Afghanistan’s 2019 Elections (31): A review of the disputed presidential election and its aftermath

On the first anniversary of Afghanistan’s fourth – and much disputed – presidential election of the post-Taleban order, we look back at the events surrounding the election and its aftermath to provide a concluding overview. AAN’s Ali Yawar Adili reviews what happened before, during and after the election, looks at the votes that swung the […]

Ali Yawar Adili • Political Landscape

Translation of the biographies of the Taleban negotiation team

AAN’s translation of the biographies of the Taleban negotiation team members from the original Dari published by the Taleban here, on 12 September 2020, the same day intra-Afghan negotiations began in Doha. AAN has published biographies of the team, drawing on a wide range of sources, here. Honourable Sheikh Mawlawi Abdul Hakim Mawlawi Sheikh Abdul Hakim, son […]

AAN • Peace process

Speech by Dr Abdullah at the opening of the Afghan peace negotiations in Doha

Doha, 12 September 2020 REMARKS BY THE CHAIRMAN OF HIGH COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL RECONCILIATION H.E. DR. ABDULLAH ABDULLAH  at THE OPENING CEREMONY OF AFGHANISTAN PEACE NEGOTIATIONS in DOHA-QATARSEPTEMBER 12, 2020 Unofficial English translation Excellencies; HE Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani the foreign minister of State of Qatar;HE Mike Pompeo the United States Secretary of […]

Peace process

Speech by Mullah Baradar at the opening of the Afghan peace negotiations in Doha

Doha, 12 September 2020 Speech by Deputy of Islamic Emirate and Chief of Political Office H.E. Mullah Baradar Akhund at opening ceremony of intra-Afghan negotiations الحمدلله وکفی والصلوة والسلام علیه رسوله المجتبی امابعد:فاعوذ بالله من الشیطن الرجیم، بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم (و اعتصموا بحمبل الله جمعیا ولا تفرقو) الاية  و ایضا قال الله تعالی: يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَطِيعُوا […]

Peace process

Two Parties Too Wary for Peace? Central questions for talks with the Taleban in Doha

For the first time, representatives of the Afghan government and the Taleban are coming together, officially and in person, to negotiate power-sharing and peace.  While the start of the talks was somewhat delayed by disagreements on the last prisoners to be released, the negotiating teams in Doha are now ready to go.  But there are big questions […]

Christine Roehrs • Ali Yawar Adili • Sayed Asadullah Sadat • War and Peace

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