Hamburger Abendblatt and Die Welt, 3 September 2014 In this article reviewing the post-election situation, AAN’s Martine van Bijlert is extensively quoted on fraud (“part of the competition … on both sides” bur proof for “industrial scale” still lacking) and on the plans for a unity government (establishment of a prime minister/CEO and leader of o […]
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Nachtwei.de, 2 September 2014 Winnie Nachtwei, former long-term Green MP in Germany and still a regular Afghanistan watcher, summarises AAN’s latest Kunduz dispatch by Lola Cecchinel on his website (in German).
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Tagesspiegel (Berlin), 2 September 2014 This is a first: an AAN dispatch is quoted by a newspaper from another newspaper (Frankfurter Allgemeine), about the deteriorating security situation in Kunduz.
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Eurasia Review (FPRI), 1 September 2014 This analysis of the Afghan presidential elections draws on several AAN dispatches and the compilation “Key Documents underwriting the electoral agreement” as sources.
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Khaama Press, 31 August 2014 Article quotes recent AAN dispatch by S Reza Kazemi: The outgoing president urges both runners and IEC to wrap things up sooner as he is packing his stuff up and leaving the much demanded and desired – at least in Afghan politics – chair of Arg (Palace). People can’t decide […]
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Frankfurter Allgemeine, 28 August 2014 Friederike Böge’s article about the Taleban gains in Kunduz city quotes from AAN’s dispatch: the districts of Char Darah and Khanabad are „almost completely under Taleban controll“ and are almost as close to taking the city as in 1997.
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Los Angeles Times, 28 August 2014 AAN’s Obaid Ali is quoted on the growing disillusionment surrounding Afghanistan’s electoral process: For many Afghans, a government that makes space for both teams seems similar to what they’ve seen before. While both candidates have pledged to stamp out corruption, which has mushroomed during President Hamid Karzai’s 12-year administration, […]
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Christian Science Monitor, 26 August 2014 Article quotes extensively from recent dispatch by AAN’s Martine van Bijlert on the reasons for and complications involved in splitting the audit into a “special” and a “normal audit.”
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Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 24 August 2014 In this article on the pre-election mood in Afghanistan, AAN’s Martine van Bijlert is quoted: “Das Ego der beiden Kandidaten ist laut Martine van Bijlert vom Afghanistan Analysts Network, einem unabhängigen Think-Tank in Kabul, aber nicht das grösste Problem. Ghani und Abdullah könnten sich durchaus auf einen Kompromiss einigen, […]
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Stars and Stripes, 25 August 2014 Article quotes AAN’s Martine van Bijlert on what are supposed to be the final stages of Afghanistan’s electoral process: ‘The adjudication process that began Monday will likely generate new disputes. … The resulting three-day lag, plus the time needed to recount and then adjudicate the ballot boxes from the suspect […]
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RFE/RL, 24 August 2014 Frud Bezhan looks at instructions to the Afghan security forces to kill militants on the battlefield instead of taking them prisoner and transferring them for prosecution. HRW’s Patricia Gossman, also an AAN member, says: “When Afghan forces are fighting the Taliban then the militants are military targets and there is no legal issue. It’s once […]
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Foreign Policy, 20 August 2014 Foreign Policy’s 20 August situation report quotes extensively from Martine van Bijlert’s AAN dispatch “Solving audit problems by creating new ones”-
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