Daily Telegraph, 26 March 2014 The Telegraph's Rob Crilly found Borhan Osman's latest analysis for AAN convincing, saying "that the Taliban are far from threatening to bring down the state" and quoting that it is ultimately the legitimacy of the Kabul government that provides the best protection against the militants: To sum up, while the Taliban […]
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Asiatic Review, 27 March 2014 In this article about possible economic repercussions of the upcoming Afghan elections, AAN’s Fabrizio Foschini is quoted: Fabrizio Foschini, a political analyst at the Kabul-based Afghanistan Analysts Network, said it was hard to predict whether the presidential election will worsen the security situation. “If there is an impression among the […]
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Radio 1, VPRO Bureau Buitenland, 25 March 2014 Interview with Martine van Bijlert on the upcoming Afghan elections (last 15 minutes of the recording) – in Dutch.
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Deutsche Welle, 25 March 2014 In a primer for the Afghan elections, Deutsche Welle looks at the situation of the Afghan media. AAN's Sari Kouvo is quoted with cautioning against a too optimistic picture: "There is today a stronger sense of 'government control' and journalists fear that they may face reprisals if they criticize the government […]
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Express Tribune (Pakistan), 24 March 2014 AAN's occasional guest author Assunta Nicolini with an op-ed on Afghanistan that has "finally joined the ranks of countries developing and implementing national internal displacement strategies". She mentiones that it was "noted by the Afghan [sic] Analyst Network, [that] until now Afghan IDPs were not part of any specific international agency’s […]
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Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, 24 March 2014 AAN's Christine Roehrs is quoted in this article of the Polish newspaper's Kabul correspondent in Kabul on the forthcoming elections: Jakie problemy mogą się pojawić podczas wyborów? – Obserwatorzy powinni się skupić na dwóch tygodniach po 5 kwietnia, kiedy będzie się odbywać liczenie głosów. To wtedy pojawi się najwięk- […]
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RFE/RL, 20 March 2014 Article quotes AAN's Martine van Bijlert on the chances of the main presidential candidates. According to her it would be a "freak result" if any of the candidates were to score a first-round victory and she describes the candidates' attempt to secure votes as a multilayered challenge: "there are other variables that all candidates […]
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Radio Azadi, 20 March 2014 AAN's Wazhma Samandary is quoted in thsi article on the website of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Afghan branch about the impact of continuing insecurity on the situation of Afghan women and their possible participation in the upcoming elections, pointing to the presence of "irrersposible armed groups" in insecure provinces that […]
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Bonner General-Anzeiger, 20 March 2014 In this portrait of presidential candidate Zalmai Rassul, AAN's Thomas Ruttig is quoted as contradicting the widespread opinion that Rassul is a 'marionet' of the incumbent, Hamed Karzai. "Rassul is senior to Karzai and a political heir of the supporters of the former King. He can become a president in his […]
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Radio France International, 18 March 2014 In a series of primers for the April election in Afghanistan, AAN is quoted, here on the role of warlords in the Afghan political system: "Armed strongmen … sit in most key positions and dominate the parliament, the judiciary and the still-partly factionalised security forces as well as the […]
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Qantara.de, 18 March 2014 The blog of German international broadcaster Deutsche Welle publishes a long interview (in German) with AAN's Thomas Ruttig, covering elections, the role of parliament, the judiciary, the warlords and the Taleban and social developments over the past 12 years.
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IPS, 16 March 2014 In the run-up to Afghanistan's presidential elections, "civil society activists in Bamiyan … seem particularly interested in what the presidential candidates have to say about 'transitional justice.'" writes the news agency. The article quotes Sari Kouvo's 2012 AAN dispatch saying that "the favoured strategy of both the Afghan government and the international community […]
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