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March 31, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
NDTV: Termed as "opium brides", the daughters of poor poppy farmers are often given to drug traffickers if their fathers are unable to pay the loan taken for growing the illicit crop because of the official action. Full news...
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March 27, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: There were no employment opportunities and any projects to attract workers, the youths complain, on the other hand current drought caused the locals in this Northern Province to sell their animals on through away prices and go where they can help their families living. Full news...
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March 26, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: AFGHANISTAN emerged as the world's third most volatile country, topping even Iraq, according to a report published yesterday, two days after Afghanistan's bloodiest attack in months on a non-government organisation. Full news...
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March 26, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Le Monde: Afghanistan should be a textbook case, a model, the very paradigm of the "reconstruction" of a failing state under the auspices of a mobilized international community. There were so many hopes and promises right after the 2001 fall of the Taliban regime which al-Qaeda had made its rear base! Full news...
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March 25, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Financial Times: The international aid effort in Afghanistan is in large part "wasteful and ineffective", with as much as 40 per cent of funds spent going back to donor countries in corporate profits and consultant salaries, Kabul-based charities will say today. Full news...
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March 25, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AP: The prospects for peace in Afghanistan are being undermined because Western countries are failing to deliver on aid promises — and because much of the aid money they do send is going to expatriate workers, according to the Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief, an alliance of 94 international aid agencies. Full news...
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March 16, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Chicago Tribune: The homes in the fancy Shirpoor neighborhood are a child's fantasy of mirrored columns, rainbow-colored tiles, green glass, imposing arches and high gates. They also are evidence of what has gone wrong with Afghanistan, almost seven years after the Taliban was chased from power into the mountains. Full news...
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March 10, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Food shortages in Ajristan District of Ghazni Province, central Afghanistan, have forced some families to eat dried grass in order to survive, local people and the district administrator told IRIN. Full news...
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March 10, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Poverty and parental fights led a young girl named Farzana in Jowzjan province in Northern Afghanistan to hang herself and commit suicide. Full news...
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March 8, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Green Left Weekly: It has to be one of the most unbelievable stories of the century: New Idea, a magazine that trades on gossip about royals and other celebrities, is blamed for exposing Prince Harry’s deployment in the British military intervention in Afghanistan. It is about as believable as the plot of Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper, in which a young prince swaps places with a street lad to see what life is like in “Paupersville”. Full news...
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March 5, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Saliha still mourns the death of her three-year-old daughter, Halima, who died due to severe diarrhoea at a hospital in Kunar Province, eastern Afghanistan, on 11 January. The child had drunk contaminated water which Saliha's family collects from a nearby river and uses for all purposes, including drinking, cooking and washing. Full news...
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February 21, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Afghanistan is sitting on a wealth of mineral reserves -- perhaps the richest in the region -- that offer hope for a country mired in poverty after decades of war, the mining minister says. Full news...
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February 20, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajamas Media Inc.: I lived in Kabul nearly fifty years ago. It was enchanting and dangerous. I lived on a wide and gracious street lined with trees. We had electricity, phones, hot and cold running water, and marble bathrooms. There was a movie theatre and an American-style cafeteria restaurant. Bazaars flourished, mosques shimmered, a thousand (all male) tea-houses thrived. Barefoot boys scurried bearing tea for businessmen all day long. Full news...
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February 13, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Spero News: It was supposed to be "the good war"; a war against terror; a war of liberation. It was intended to fix the eyes of the world on America's state of the art weaponry, its crack troops and its overwhelming firepower. It was supposed to demonstrate—once and for all-- that the world's only superpower could no longer be beaten or resisted; that Washington could deploy its troops anywhere in the world and crush its adversaries at will. Full news...
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February 13, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: A growing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan is being overlooked as an unknown number of people are fleeing their homes, caught between security forces and the Taliban, Red Cross officials have told the Guardian. Full news...
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February 10, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Food shortage and cold weather compelled over 100 children to run away from Ghazni province orphanage, a report claimed on Sunday. Full news...
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February 8, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: More than 750 people have died in the harshest winter to have hit Afghanistan in decades, the disaster authority said Saturday. Full news...
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January 30, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Knocking on the windows of cars stuck in traffic on Shar-e-Naw Street in Kabul, Zulaikha and her children beg for money to keep warm and feed themselves. Their daily routine starts at about 7am and ends at 6pm every day. Full news...
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January 28, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: After the blood-curdling incident in Kunduz province yet another baby was sold due to extreme poverty and hunger in northern Takhar province. Full news...
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January 27, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Poverty, cold weather, and hunger forced a woman to sell her four month baby in Kunduz. Mahboba, 26, whose lower limbs are paralyzed is living in a dark muddy room in Sar- dara area of Kunduz city. Full news...
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January 22, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: About 600 children under five die every day in Afghanistan due to pneumonia, poor nutrition, diarrhoea and other preventable diseases, according to the State of the World’s Children 2008 report released by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on 22 January. Full news...
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January 21, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: More than 320 people and thousands of livestock have been killed in Afghanistan this month in freezing weather and the heaviest snowfalls for 15 years, the country's disaster authority said Monday. Full news...
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January 16, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Heavy snow and extremely cold weather have killed at least 140, mostly children and elderly people, and injured many others in different parts of Afghanistan, over the past two weeks, according to the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authorities (ANDMA) and provincial authorities. Full news...
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January 16, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: “I do not enjoy being with men. I hate them. But to keep them as loyal customers, I pretend,” said the young Afghan woman. Dressed in jeans and a tee-shirt, with shoulder-length black hair and wearing no makeup, 21-year-old Saida (not her real name) looked ordinary enough. But in this highly conservative society, she has sex with men for money, sometimes several times a night. Full news...
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January 14, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Soaring staple food prices have pushed 1.3 million previously food-secure people in rural Afghanistan into high risk food-insecurity, according to the latest assessment by the UN World Food Programme (WFP). Full news...
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January 13, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Associated Press: Gul Hussein was standing under a pale street lamp in a poor section of east Kabul when the entire neighborhood suddenly went black. “As you can see, it is dark everywhere,” the 62-year-old man said, adding that his family would light a costly kerosene lamp for dinner that evening. “Some of our neighbors are using candles, but candles are expensive, too.” Full news...
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January 10, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Authorities said Wednesday that at least 34 people had been killed in days of heavy snowfall across trouble-torn Afghanistan. Full news...
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December 30, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ION: A man in his thirties suddenly threw himself on a busy road in Kabul and yelled, “kill me and drive over me. They can’t feed us; the easier way is to kill me and my children. Oh people, for God's sake, come and kill us,” shouted the apparently exhausted man lamenting the government's failure to provide him with a livelihood. Full news...
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December 29, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Over 200 families have been trapped in the Loranj Valley of the Kuhmard district in central Bamyan province in the wake of heavy rain and snowfall, officials said on Wednesday. Full news...
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December 22, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
UNICEF: The American photographer Stephanie Sinclair is the winner of the international photo competition "UNICEF Photo of the Year". Her photo shows a wedding couple in Afghanistan who could not be more opposite. The groom, Mohammed, looks much older than his 40 years. The bride, Ghulam, is still a child; she just turned 11. "The UNICEF Photo of the Year 2007 raises awareness about a worldwide problem. Millions of girls are married while they are still under age. Full news...
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