dpa, 18 September 2023 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted in this news item published by Germany’s leading news agency dpa about the changed situation in Afghanistan under the Taleban and the perspectives for the country and its people: Despite the disastrous situation, Afghanistan specialist Thomas Ruttig is not expecting a change of power any time […]
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In a report for Scotland’s Daily Herald newspaper on 3 September 2023, Foreign Editor David Pratt, quotes AAN research on women’s lives: Education, employment and travel curtailed, barred from parks, gyms, and other public spaces, torture for those that disobey, the oppression of women in Afghanistan grows daily and amounts to “gender apartheid.” Their observations are both […]
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Yahoo News, 3 September 2023 In this news item, the author quotes from recent AAN research and calls it ‘invaluable’ and that it has never ‘been more important’ (he incorrectly writes ‘ANN’, though): “Day by day, the walls close in”. “Suffocated”. “Without hope”. These are just some of the descriptions by Afghan women of the […]
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NachDenkSeiten, 30 August 2023 In this analysis on the German policy blog, the author quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in the context of the still dragging German government’s relocation programme for former Afghan employees as saying that Germany ‘has a duty to deliver’ here. https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=103058
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Süddeutsche Zeitung, 29 August 2023 The author in one of Germany‘s leading dailies, Tobias Matern, quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig here, as saying – in the context of the discussion about whether seek diplomatic channels with the Taleban – that “[humanitarian] aid has priority over reaching political aims” (in German). https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/afghanistan-hilfsorganisationen-heinrich-schoeneich-taliban-dilemma-1.6168051?reduced=true
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Tagesspiegel, 22 August 2023 Op-ed by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (in German) discussing Taleban-internal differences of opinion and the question whether their regime should be isolated or contacts keep open. He argues that complete isolation could put millions in jeopardy of starvation. The absence of diplomatic EU member-state presence, while there is a EU office could […]
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taz, 16 August 2023 Listen to a podcast (in German) discussing the current situation in Afghanistan and ways for the international community how to deal with the Taleban, with taz Asia editor Sven Hansen, migration editor Cem Güler and AAN’s Thomas Ruttig.
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BBC, 14 August 2023 Along with Afghan women and western diplomats, AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted here: “There’s a lot of distrust, even disdain, between sides who fought each other for years,” says Kate Clark of the Afghanistan Analysts Network. “The Taliban think the West still wants to corrupt their nation and the West doesn’t […]
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dpa, 14 August AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted in this article of German news agency dpa on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Taleban’s takeover of power (in German): Trotz der desaströsen Lage erwartet der Afghanistan-Experte Thomas Ruttig keinen baldigen Machtwechsel. “Die Taliban sitzen fest im Sattel.” Oppositionsgruppen, die während der ersten Taliban-Herrschaft […]
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Tageszeitung, 14 August 2023 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig writes in the Berlin-based daily about the initiative of a former Afghan diplomats and some SPD politicians to organise an ‘intra-Afghan dialogue conference in Germany in October to bring representatives of the Taleban and ex-President Karzai (and other groups) together – and the hurdles such an initiative faces.
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Tageszeitung (taz), 13 August 2023 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, together with taz’s Asia editor Sven Hansen, interviews German MP Michael Müller who heads the German parliament’s enquiry commission looking at the country’s contribution to the Afghanistan mission 2001-21 (in German). https://taz.de/Michael-Mueller-ueber-Afghanistan/!5949655/
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Tageszeitung, 26 July 2023 Op-ed by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in the Berlin-based daily, looking at the facts and background of Afghanistan‘s latest flooding (in German).
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