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Thomas Ruttig

AAN Has Concerns About Rural Voters’ Access to Polling Centers

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ToloNews, 24 September 2019 Both AAN’s Ali Adili and Thomas Ruttig can be seen speaking about the forthcoming presidential election in the leading private TV channel’s 6pm news – starts at 5:25 min (in Dari). Also as short English news text, here.

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Fear, Fatigue Could Undermine Afghan Presidential Vote

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 23 September 2019 Quotes from AAN’s Ali Yawar Adili and AAN research in this pre-election article: Ali Adili, a researcher at the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN), an independent think tank in Kabul, predicts a low turnout because of “insecurity, uninspiring election campaigns by the candidates, and a lack of confidence in […]

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‘Voting means you’re crazy’: violence and fraud overshadow Afghanistan poll

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The Guardian, 22 September 2019 A primer by Emma Harrison on the 28 September presidential election in Afghanistan, saying “turnout almost certain to be dented by security worries and disillusionment, many analysts fear that this re-run of the 2014 contest will produce a repeat of its disputed and fraud-damaged results.” AAN’s Ali Yawar Adili is […]

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The Human and Financial Costs of the Explosive Remnants of War in Afghanistan

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Brown University, 19 September 2019 A new report by the Brown University, Watson Institute’s Costs of War project: Afghanistan ranks as one of the most landmine- and unexploded ordnance-impacted countries in the world, even after thirty years of clearance operations supported extensively by the United Nations and a number of major donors, including the United […]

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Fredshåpet brast, volden trappes opp i Afghanistan

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Vårt Land, 17 September 2019 A processed interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in this Norwegian daily, mainly covering the current security situation after the breakdown of US-Taleban talks and the forthcoming election.

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‘Ik ken niet anders dan oorlog in Afghanistan, maar hoop op deal VS-Taliban’ (I don’t know Afghanistan in anything but war, but hope on the US-Taleban deal)

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NOS, 14 September 2019 A long interview on the largest Dutch public broadcasters website with AAN’s Fazl Muzhary, about the situation in Afghanistan, his own live in the war and his work with AAN – before the US-Taleban deal broke down (in Dutch).

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16 Sept 2019: Do the Taleban Want Peace? Seminar in Oslo

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Seminar in Oslo on 16 September (6-8pm), organised by the Norwegian Afghanistan Committee. Panel with: Ashley Jackson, Overseas Development Institute and Kings College, London Thomas Ruttig, Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) Ahmad Yasir Aqil, freelancer, Oslo moderator: Kai Eide     Here the original (Norwegian) announcement: Invitasjon til møte 16. september. kl 18-20, Tøyen,Oslo AKTUELT/ onsdag […]

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Afghan election back in spotlight after Trump’s Taliban tweets

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AFP/Daily Mail, 13 September 2019 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted on the forthcoming Afghan presidential election and possible Taleban violence: The question is whether the elections can be seen as fair and representative, say experts from the Afghanistan Analysts Network. AAN analyst Thomas Ruttig told AFP that with the election so near it was “difficult […]

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New generation of Taliban fuels battles in northern Afghanistan

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Stars and Stripes, 10 September 2019 AAN’s Obaid Ali is quoted here on the Taleban recruiting non-Pashtuns in northern and northeastern Afghanistan: “It’s a new generation, run by locals,” said Obaid Ali, analyst for Afghanistan Analysts Network, in a phone interview. “There are no longer people coming from the south to serve as shadow governors […]

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‘Praten met Taliban blijft in ieders belang’

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NRC, 10 September 2019 “It is in everyone’s interest to continue talking to the Taleban” – interview with AAN co-founder Martine van Bijlert in the Dutch daily. She says she doesn’t think that this was “the definite end of the talks” and that they can be resumed. The alternative for the US “is continuation of the […]

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Trump beendet Gespräche: “Für die Menschen in Afghanistan ist es eine Katastrophe”

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SRF4, 10 September 2019 Radio interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (in German) on Swiss Radio, saying that the President Trump’s cancellation of the Taleban talks was a catastrophe as peace for Afghans will be pushed into the far future, the a new start for talks might be far away and both sides in the war […]

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Taliban und Regierungskräfte liefern sich neue Gefechte

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dpa/Tagesspiegel, 10 September 2019 The Berlin-based daily quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the new fighting in several Afghan provinces as a result of the cancelled US-Taleban deal (in German): Dem Afghanistan-Experten Thomas Ruttig von der Denkfabrik Afghanistan Analysts Network zufolge ist als Folge des Abbruchs der USA-Taliban-Gespräche mit einem Anstieg der Gewalt zu rechnen. „Die Alternative zu Verhandlungen ist Krieg“, […]

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