Tageszeitung, 31 March 2022 In this op-ed for the Berlin-based daily, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig looks at a series of recent Afghanistan-related meetings hosted by China’s government and the latest UN donor conference (in German).
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The Conversation, 28 March 2022 This article by long-term Afghanistan analyst Sippi Azarbaijani Moghaddam deflates the myth about the success of girls education under the Western-backed predecessor government to the Taleban, also linking to AAN’s March 2017 seminal report, “A Success Story Marred by Ghost Numbers: Afghanistan’s inconsistent education statistics.”
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Nature, 28 March 2022 The leading science magazine quotes from a recent AAN report in its editorial: Others in the Taliban envisage a different future. … Many have been to schools and universities abroad and acquired professional qualifications. Among their number are current Taliban leaders whose own daughters and sons are being educated, according to […]
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The Guardian, 23 March 2022 AAN is quoted in this Guardian editorial: … as the Afghanistan Analysts Network warned recently: “This is not an economic crisis that has mainly hit the poor and the vulnerable and it cannot be addressed by emergency food aid alone. At its most basic level, the economy needs its cash to flow […]
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Settesere qui, 19 March 2022 Interview with regular AAN contributor Fabrizio Foschini in this regional newspaper in the Romagna region (in Italian).
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The Diplomat, 8 March 2022 In this article reflecting on women’s rights in Afghanistan, the author refers to and quotes from AAN research on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (EVAW) law: Although the Elimination of Violence Against Women (EVAW) law was promulgated in 2009 by presidential decree, it was the 2013 attempt to ratify […]
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nd, 27 February 2022 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig describes in this article how the US-driven freezing of Afghan assets abroad triggered a humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan and how both many Afghans and Afghan experts see these measures as ‘economic warfare’ against the Taleban that actually hit the population not the regime.
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Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 24 February 2022 In this article about the exclusion of women and girls from education under the second Taleban regime, the Swiss daily quotes from an AAN report that the Taleban position vis-a-vis girls education has in fact changed in some aspects (in German): Laut einem Bericht des Afghanistan Analysts Network dürfte sich die […]
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ARD, 15 February 2022 Read a full interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (in German), tacking stock of the Taleban’s first six months in power, at the website of Germany’s largest public broadcaster.
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Aaj TV, 12 February 2022 The website of the Indian TV station summarises AAN’s latest blog series on education under the Taleban.
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Augsburger Allgemeine, 10 February 2022 Longer quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in this analytical article, looking at how dangerous ISKP is in Afghanistan (in German), putting some perspective on recent reports of a ‘strengthened ISKP, as by the UN, and on a feared ‘overspill’ into neighbouring countries. On the latter: “Natürlich hat der IS diesen […]
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BBC, 8 February 2022 Short piece from AAN’s Kate Clark being live on BBC TV, interviewed based on the latest AAN series on the Taleban and education.
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