Long War Journal, 10 October 2016 This Long War Journal report on “Why Kunduz Fell” argues that the situation in Kunduz leading up to the fall of the provincial capital in 2015, in many ways mirrors the present state of the country as a whole. The article lists four AAN dispatches – one by Obaid Ali, […]
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Trouw (Dutch daily), 10 October 2016 Article discussing the Taleban assault on Helmand’s capital Lashkargah, refers to a pattern that can be found all over Afghanistan: the Taleban attack, the government sends elite forces who push the attackers out and are then moved elsewhere, and the area is then left for the – demoralised and […]
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VG, 9 October 2016 Article quotes AAN’s Martine van Bijlert extensively on the situation of the Afghan government and security forces. She says that the “system hasn’t collapsed, but the situation is precarious.” Med Kunduz i fjor hadde den afghanske regjeringen for første gang mistet en provinshovedstad – og det var ganske vanskelig for dem […]
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IRIN News, 7 October 2016 AAN’s recent dispatch on the EU-Afghanistan migration agreement was one of IRIN’s top picks of the week: At a major conference in Brussels this week, foreign governments agreed to provide Afghanistan with $3.75 billion in aid over the next four years – but not without some strings attached. The EU unveiled its […]
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web.de, 3 October 2016 Article quotes AAN: In Kundus hat Gouverneur Assadullah Omarchel dem Rechercheinstitut Afghanistan Analysts Network vor kurzem gesagt, er solle zwar eine ganze Provinz regieren, sei aber meistens in der Stadt gestrandet.
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Tageschau, 28 September 2016 “Unabhängige Organisationen wie die International Crisis Group oder das Afghanistan Analysts Network sowie Sicherheitsexperten für internationale Organisationen, die zuletzt in Kundus waren, bestätigen Shukria Ahmadis Schilderungen. Die deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), der entwicklungspolitische Arm der Bundesregierung, schickt derzeit keine Mitarbeiter nach Kundus und versucht, die Projekte von Kabul oder […]
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Foreign Policy, 27 September 2016 Heather Barr quotes AAN’s Borhan Osman in her article on IS in Afghanistan: “The Taliban consistently articulates goals that solely pertain to its quest to regain control of Afghanistan. … This is in sharp contrast to the global ambitions of the Islamic State, which announced the establishment of its own, global caliphate […]
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Klassekampen, 23 September 2016 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig quoted extensively in this two-pager in the Norwegian left-wing daily on the triple crisis in Afghanistan: socio-economic, security and governmental, based on an interview during the Afghanistan week organised by Norwegian Afghanistan Committee (NAC). Not online yet, but here a screenshot from Twitter.
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NRK, 22 September 2016 The website of Norwegian public broadcaster has collected a number of reactions to the peace deal between the Afghan government and Hezb-e Islami. One is from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig: En av verdens fremste Afghanistan-kjennere, Thomas Ruttig i Afghanistan Analysts Network, betegner Hekmatyar som farlig. – Han er veldig farlig, veldig mange […]
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TT/Göteborgs-Posten, 21 September 2016 The Swedish news agency quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the NUG’s performance: I de flesta afghaners ögon har NUG presterat dåligt. Den är i stor utsträckning blockerad av interna stridigheter om maktdelningen, vilket tar tid och kraft från viktigare saker som socioekonomiska frågor och ett slut på kriget, säger Thomas Ruttig […]
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EU News, 19 September 2016 AAN is quoted several times in a recent report of the European Asylum Support Office, titled “Afghanistan Recruitment by armed groups”, reports the EU-related news agency, for example here: A quality review was carried out by Kate Clark from the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN), an independent non- profit policy research organisa […]
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Indian Express, 15 September 2016 The Indian daily finds Lola Cecchinel’s analysis for AAN about Kunduz “very thoughtful”: In large swathes of the country, this means government has all but vanished. In a thoughtful analysis written this month, Afghan Analysts Network researcher Lola Cecchinel wrote that the government’s influence in the Kunduz districts of Dasht-e […]
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