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Thomas Ruttig

Zeugnis mit Kratzern

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Wiener Zeitung, 28 December 2017 The Vienna newspaper reports about Afghanistan’s education system in 2017. The author quotes from AAN’s dispatch on corruption in the school system: Für die Kabuler Denkfabrik “Afghanistan Analysts Network” ist der Bericht die “klarste und schonungsloseste Korruptionsbeurteilung in Afghanistans Bildungssektor bisher”.

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Cover of Afghan Info. Issue no 79, October 2016.

“The Rédactrice Says Farewell”: A goodbye to the Afghanistan Info (1980-2017)

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It is already December and time to look back at the year almost just passed. Before we come to the macro issues of Afghanistan’s political, security and socio-economic situation in 2017, we want to say “thank you” to Micheline Centlivres-Demont and Pierre Centlivres, and wish a “goodbye” to the Afghanistan Info, a bulletin of news […]

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Many bonded child laborers work in Takhar salt mine

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Pajhwok News Agency, 27 December 2017 The Kabul-based news agency draws attention to two widespread, but underreported social phenomena in Afghanistan: child and bonded labour.

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Taliban Strategy In Afghanistan: 2017 And Beyond

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 24 December 2017 In this look at the Afghan Taleban’s strategy, there is a link to AAN’s recent paper on Taleban ideology by Anand Gopal and Alex Strick van Linschoten in the discussion “who they are”: While they are sometimes labeled nationalists, the Taliban are keen to brandish their Islamist credentials […]

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Ist Afghanistan das nächste Schlachtfeld des IS?

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Web.de, 23 December 2017 The news page of the German email provider published a summary on the IS activities in Afghanistan, based on interviews with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig and with Nicole Birtsch, of the Berlin-based think-tank SWP.

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In Afghanistan bringen sich alte Warlords neu in Stellung

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Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 22 December 2017 A short quote from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in this report about the firing of Balkh provincial governor Atta by President Ghani, stemming from an earlier round of this conflict, saying that it is also about the competition for leadership in the Jamiat party: «Die Tatsache, dass Atta nun öffentlich […]

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[عطا محمد نور پس ازبرکناری اش از سوی رییس جمهور غنی]

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BBC Persian, 20 December 2017 See a video on Youtube of AAN’s Obaid Ali in an interview with the BBC Persian news of 29 Azar 1396 on the situation after the resignation – or firing – of Balkh provincial governor Atta Muhammad  Nur (his part starts at 8:50 of the file).

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Afghan Governor’s Dismissal Highlights Rift In Party, Risks To Unity Government

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Gandhara, 19 December 2017 On Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe’s Central Asia blog, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig explains, in extensive quotes, the background of the renewed double-crisis, in the NUG between President Ghani and fired Balkh governor Atta and within Jamiat, between Atta and co-Jamiati, NUG CE Dr Abdullah.

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Afghanistan (Konfliktporträt)

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Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 18 December 2017 The latest version of the bi-annually updated portrait of the Afghan conflict by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on this encyclopaedial website which is designed to inform teacher and pupils, particularly (in German). Go to the text here.

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Taliban collecting taxes from all in Ghazni

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Pajhwok News Agency, 18 December 2017 Report about a lesser known method of how the Taleban fund themselves, by the Kabul-based news agency.

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نگاهی به روابط محکمه بینا للی جزایی و افغانستان (A Look at ICC-Afghan relations)

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 قوس1396 ,ماهنامه حقوق بشر (Human Rights Monthly, December 2017) The monthly publication of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission carries an article by AAN’s Ehsan Qaane about the relations between Afghanistan and the International Criminal Court in the context of the court’s deliberations about opening a formal investigation into alleged post-2003 war crimes in the […]

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Ach, wie schön ist Afghanistan (Oh, how nice is Afghanistan)

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Falter 50/17, 13 December 2017 The Vienna-based weekly magazine looks at the “questionable” expertises of the only court-accepted Austrian Afghanistan expert who, according to AAN’s Thomas Ruttig who is quoted extensively in the report, “highly unrealistic and even distorting.” Title of the article: “Oh how nice is Afghanistan”. Article (in German) is behind a paywall. […]

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