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One of two cars the family said the Khost Protection Force burned during their attack.

Khost Protection Force Accused of Fresh Killings: Six men shot dead in Zurmat

Kate Clark •

There has been a fresh attack on civilians by armed men whom the victims’ family and the Paktia provincial governor’s spokesman have said were from the Khost Protection Force, an irregular militia supported by the CIA. A survivor of the attack carried out in Surkai village in Zurmat district, in Paktia province, described to AAN […]

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Orchards Go to Ruin in Afghanistan’s Khost Province

AAN •

IWPR, 3 June 2014 A story of war and neglect: Khost’s government-run almond gardens and fruit orchards are drying up. “I am the only gardener for the orchard,” the report quotes one Hakim Khan, 50. “If I walked all day, I couldn’t get from one side to the other. We have no equipment to work with, […]

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Schools Lack Buildings, Books in Afghan Southeast

AAN •

IWPR, 1 May 2014 Southeastern Khost province suffers a shortage of qualified teachers and textbooks and only 152 out of 344 schools have a building. According to the deputy director of the province’s education department, “at the moment, [only] 30 per cent of teachers in Khost are professionals,”

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Journalisten in Afghanistan: Recherche mit Risiko

AAN •

Tagesspiegel (Berlin), 8 April 2014 AAN's Christine Röhrs writes in her old newspaper: commenting on the attack killing of German photographer Anja Niedringhaus and injuring AP's Kathy Gannon, she writes (in German) that this and other attacks on journalists has deeply influenced how journalists feel they can work in Afghanistan but warns against alarmism: it would […]

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L’Afghanistan si prepara al voto tra tensione e timori di brogli

AAN •

Tiscali (Italy), 4 April 2014 Watch AAN's Kate Clark in a video on this Italian video news channel comenting on the new killing of two foreign journalists in Afghanistan:  L'analista Kate Clark, direttore dell'Afghanistan analyst network, è molto pessimista sulla correttezza del processo elettorale. "Ci saranno brogli. Ci saranno nei seggi elettorali e al momento […]

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Guest Blog: Reconciliation Reloaded in Khost

Emilie Jelinek •

Once there was the Strengthening Peace programme, with it provincial branches, like here in Khost, to ‘reintegrate’ willing insurgent fighters. It failed because of corruption and a lack of political support. Now, there is its successor programme APRP, and it is unclear whether that’s just a new name on the same project. Our guest blogger […]

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