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Thomas Ruttig

Mens Vesten stiller urealistiske krav til Taleban, sulter afghanerne, og børn dør

Politiken, 30 January 2022 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted here in the leading Danish quality daily (in Danish), article behind a paywall.

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The Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban for a safer life in Kyiv

The Times (not online), 28 January 2022 In Kyiv’s streets, where Ukrainians talk boldly and brashly of war, or just ignore its approach, stranded Afghans who only a few months ago escaped conflict in their own country are watching with jaded eyes, readying themselves for what may come. “I thought Kabul would resist for months […]

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Long neglected, Afghan villagers look to outside world for aid

Christian Science Monitor, 27 January 2022 The U.S. web-based daily quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on reasons for the negligence of difficult-to-access, rural areas: “In the beginning, it was a conceptual mistake”, says Thomas Ruttig, a co-founder of the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) who has worked on Afghanistan, including for the United Nations, since 1988. “The […]

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Afghanistan-Konferenz in Oslo: Gespräche ja, Anerkennung nein

Tageszeitung, 25 January 2022 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig analyses the Oslo talks between various donor governments and the Taleban, also including Afghan civil society and protesting women’s representatives – with an additional op-ed commentary that such talks are the only way to have a chance to rescue millions of Afghans threatened by famine and improve the […]

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Mit den Taliban reden?

Deutschlandfunk, 24 January 2022 Listen to a 10-minutes interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the Oslo Taleban talks, first part of a podcast on German public broadcaster DLF (in German).

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Afghanistan unter den Taliban: Frauen kämpfen in der ersten Reihe

Tageszeitung, 21 January 2022 Guest article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the alleged Taleban arrest of two women protest organisers in Kabul and various other cases of persecution (in German).

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One technocrat from the former government is key to the Taliban’s [aid] efforts

Washington Post, 18 January 2022 Pamela Constable’s portrait of Nazir Kabiri, owner of a master’s degree in economics; founder of Afghan think the Biruni Institute; deputy minister for policy at the Finance Ministry under President Ghani; a Tajik – and one of the few high-ranking officials who remained in his position under the Taleban. On […]

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Afghanische Menschenrechtskommission: [Shaharzad] Akbar legt Amt nieder

Tageszeitung, 10 January 2022 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig writes this portrait of Shaharzad Akbar who recently stepped down from her position in the chair of Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission (in German).

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Migrants Meet Smugglers in Serbia: Is the Balkan Route Really Closed?

EU Today, 6 January 2022 A strange quote – this UK-based website uses, in a recent article, a quote from a 2017 AAN report as if recent: ‘It is assessed that at any moment, there are at least 500-600 people in transit in Belgrade’ Afghanistan Analysts [sic] reported.

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The Final Flights of the Afghan Air Force

The Diplomat, 30 December 2021 Interesting rendering on the last operations, the fate and whereabouts of the Afghan Air Force, based on interviews with pilots now evacuated to the US, and very detailed information and figures.

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Afghanistan’s Uncertain Future After A Tumultuous Year 

AFP/France24, 27 December 2021 Research from an AAN special report by Kate Clark is published in this article: In a special report for the Afghanistan Analysts Network, Kate Clark said, “The implications of the takeover were disastrous and immediate” (AAN). “They had no ideas for how they would govern the Afghan state without aid,” she […]

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Once a Symbol of U.S. Strength, an Afghan District Now Faces Dire Times

New York Times, 18 December 2021 AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted in this reportage from Marja, Helmand, as saying: “The Taliban don’t seem to have had a sense of how dependent the economy was on foreign support, which they benefited from as did everyone else,” said Kate Clark, the co-director of Afghanistan Analysts Network. “Even […]

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