Tageszeitung, 13 November 2019 Op-ed by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig for the Berlin-based daily about the (then still) forthcoming prisoner/hostages swap between the Taleban and the Afghan government, designed to re-kickstart the US-Taleban negotiations (in German).
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The Diplomat, 13 November 2019 This article quotes from AAN research on turnout figures from Afghanistan’s 28 September presidential election: Ali Yawar Adili and Jelena Bjelica wrote for the Afghanistan Analysts Network last week about the devilishly confusing and tumultuous array of turnout numbers that have been issued from various voices since the September 28 […]
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BBC Radio, 12 November 2019 AAN’s Kate Clark has spoken to BBC radio (the PM Afternoon news and current affairs programme) about the possible swap of three Taleban from the Haqqani network detained in Bagram, Mali Khan, Hafez Rashid and Anas Haqqani, for two professors from the American University of Afghanistan, American Kevin King and […]
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ToloNews, 12 November 2019 A short quote by AAN’s election expert Ali Yawar Adili in this news report about today’s spat at a press conference of the Independent Election Commission: “Commissioners are not able to manage a news conference. This affects people’s expectations,” said Ali Adili, deputy head of Afghanistan Analysts Network.
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The National, 12 November 2019 In this report by the Dubai-based daily about the planned prisoner/hostage exchange between the Afghan government and the Taleban, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted as saying: “The prisoner/hostage swap is essential to get US-Taliban negotiations started again, after President Trump had declared them ‘dead,’ Co-Director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network […]
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Reporter, 26 October 2019 This interview with Austro-Afghan journalist Emran Feroz names AAN’s Thomas Ruttig as a reliable source on Afghanistan in the German-speaking areas.
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Newsline, October 2019 A short AAN quote in the article by Rahimullah Yusufzai for the Pakistani monthly magazine on violence on E-day in Afghanistan: The Taliban claimed to have undertaken 531 attacks, the Afghanistan Analysts Network put the number at 400 and the Afghan interior ministry downplayed the Taliban threat by insisting that the “enemy” […]
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Voice of America, 10 October 2019 In this article, AAN research is quoted on data of the Afghan presidential election which is known so far: Independent analysts, like those of the Kabul-based Afghanistan Analysts Network, have also questioned at least some of the turnout data presented publicly so far, calling some of the numbers “implausible.” […]
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RFE/RL, 9 October 2019 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted here, among a number of other analysts, is quoted on some seemingly implausible turnout figures that have come up in the Afghan presidential election: Thomas Ruttig, co-director of the independent Kabul-based Afghanistan Analysts Network, says that “everything now depends” on whether the IEC sticks to its […]
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Neues Deutschland, 30 September 2019 Some quotes on the Afghan election and the low turnout by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in the Berlin-based left-wing daily (behind a pay wall). Here a PDF version – Afghanistan article at the bottom of the page: 20190930ND-my quotes
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AFP/France24, 29 September 2019 Another quote from AAN’s E-Day summary: According to the Afghanistan Analysts Network, which compiled incidents through various sources, more than 400 attacks had been reported over the course of the election day.
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Reuters/Euronews, 29 September 2019 The news agency quotes from AAN’s E-Day summary, on turnout: “Turnout appears to have been dampened not just by Taliban threats, but also voter disinterest,” wrote Thomas Ruttig and Jelena Bjelica of the Afghanistan Analysts Network.
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