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<title><![CDATA[News editor captures 'the real thing' in Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Age: FRIENDS said he must have a death wish, going to Afghanistan. But online news editor Gregor Salmon was sick of watching disjointed images of the place on CNN. He wanted to find the truth behind the labels: the Taliban, warlords, guns and opium. And he was up for an adventure. With the help of local translators and "fixers", he spent eight months criss-crossing Afghanistan, interviewing hundreds of ordinary Afghans.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri,  3 Jul 2009 23:19:06 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghan group slams Karzai&#8217;s &#8216;warlord&#8217; vote ticket]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[AFP: An Afghan rights watchdog on Tuesday slammed President Hamid Karzai's choice of two "notorious warlords" for his August re-election bid and accused him of promising ministries to supporters. "Undemocratic forces that have constantly gained power and wealth over the past several years seem to be hijacking the election process to ensure their future interests and legitimise their grip on political and public institutions. These forces which include former and current warlords, militia commanders and human rights abusers have money, power and influence across the country which make them incomparably stronger than the ordinary voters," it said.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:49:04 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Plight of Grana, the Sole Survivor of Coalition Bombing in Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Guardian.co.uk: Grana is the sole survivor of a coalition bombing in southern Helmand province that took her arm and her leg, and killed nine members of her family. Grana is just 12 years old, she is lucky to be alive. Grana and her family were victims of a coalition bombing. Locals claim over 70 people lost their live along whole of her family.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:08:21 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghan women battle heavy odds in struggle for freedom, dignity]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Windsor Star: Afghan women - particularly in the volatile south, where the Taliban was born - rarely appear in public without burkas and often show deference to the opposite sex, lowering gazes to the floor, almost shrinking when a man approaches. Given that some hard-line Islamists believe the Koran decrees women to be subservient to men, improving conditions for women in a war-torn country with one of the world's lowest literacy levels requires more than education. It requires social engineering.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:02:15 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S.-built bridge is windfall for Afghan drug trade]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[McClatchy Newspapers: In August 2007, the presidents of Afghanistan and Tajikistan walked side by side with the U.S. commerce secretary across a new $37 million concrete bridge that the Army Corps of Engineers designed to link two of Central Asia's poorest countries. Today, the bridge across the muddy waters of the Panj River is carrying much more than vegetables and timber: It's paved the way for drug traffickers to transport larger loads of Afghan heroin and opium to Central Asia and beyond to Russia and Western Europe.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:21:16 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UN report: 800 civilians killed in conflict in January-May in Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[IRIN: Civilian deaths resulting from armed hostilities between insurgents, the US military, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan and government forces have increased by 24 percent so far this year compared to the same period in 2008, according to a report by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. In May alone, 261 non-combatants lost their lives in conflict in Afghanistan, John Holmes, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, told members of the Security Council at a meeting on 26 June.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:44:45 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Power of the Poppy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal: Today, the good, the bad and the ugly all flourish in Afghanistan&#8212;sometimes together, sometimes apart. But it&#8217;s not clear who is benefiting most from the drug trade. Is it the Taliban and al Qaeda or members of ­Afghanistan&#8217;s U.S.-backed government? Statistics vary wildly, but the U.N. estimates that drugs bring in upward of $300 million annually to the Taliban&#8217;s coffers. That still leaves billions unaccounted for.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:52:30 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghan Kidnappings: Local Journalists Face Risks]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Time: While abductions of foreign journalists can end and have ended in tragedy, the risks facing Afghan journalists are even greater. The Taliban and other lawless elements in the country are often motivated by the potential ransoms &#8212; sometimes worth several million dollars &#8212; they believe foreigners can bring them. Afghan journalists who fall into their hands generally do not offer the same moneymaking possibilities. And so the escape of Ludin, who like some other local journalists acts as a "fixer" for foreign correspondents, was particularly welcome.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:49:40 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Women Reporters Under Threat in Herat]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[IWPR: Khadija Ahadi used to be the most active journalism student in town. At press conferences in Herat, she would always be there with her video camera, usually the only woman in the room. Nobody was surprised that she landed a job as the deputy editor-in-chief of Radio Faryad after her studies. But now her successful career has suddenly been stopped &#8211; by force. &#8220;Some men threatened me because I am a reporter, but initially I kept working and I didn&#8217;t tell my family because they would have stopped me,&#8221; said Ahadi, 32. &#8220;Then one day they threw two grenades in my house. I have not gone to work since.&#8217;&#8217;]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:31:14 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Few rural women use family planning services in Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[IRIN: Family planning services are available in over 90 percent of health facilities across Afghanistan but the number of women using them in rural areas is too low, according to the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH). Hamida Ebadi, director of MoPH&#8217;s reproductive health unit, reckoned only 14-15 percent of women in rural and remote regions use family planning services. Most pregnancy-related deaths happen in remote, isolated and insecure areas of the country where people have poor access to quality health services, officials say.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:49:26 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bagram lesser known - but more evil - twin of Guantanamo]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Reuters: The big surprise in Tuesday&#8217;s revelations of prisoner abuse at Bagram is how long these stories have taken to reach the international media, given the scale of the problem. Bagram Airforce Base is Guantanamo Bay&#8217;s lesser known - but more evil - twin. Thousands of prisoners have been &#8220;through the system&#8221; at Bagram, and around 600 are currently held there. Meanwhile President Obama&#8217;s lawyers are fighting to hold them incommunicado; stripped of the right to challenge the reasons for their imprisonment.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:47:52 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Children carrying the burden of work in Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[UNICEF: Child labour is an issue of growing concern in Afghanistan. The ongoing political tensions, insecurity and rising food prices have put the livelihoods of vulnerable families and children increasingly at risk. In Afghanistan, as in many other countries, the child labour problem is rooted in poverty and in socioeconomic inequalities based on gender and disability. Already, 30 percent of Afghan children aged 5 to 14 are engaged in some form of work.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:19:05 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghanistan&#8217;s smuggler children]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Channel 4 News: Nima Elbagir travels to Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, where a programme to eradicate opium production has led to an upsurge of child smugglers. In Tsasubi, village elders told us that forced to abandon poppy farming, and receiving no help in creating alternative livelihoods, they had turned to smuggling.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:44:32 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A Young Afghan Boy Committed Suicide in Takhar Province]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[PAN (Translated by RAWA): An 18-year-old Afghan boy named Nabiullah set himself on fire on his father&#8217;s grave and died in hospital in the in Takhar province, in Northern Afghanistan. ... according to information Nabiullah was the youngest one in his family and had lost his father in recent years but his elder brothers stopped him from going to school and forced him to do a job... it is possible that the economic and family problems were causes of the boy&#8217;s self-immolation.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:03:36 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Occupation, BBC1 Dispatches: Afghanistan&#8217;s Dirty War]]></title>
<link>http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2009/06/22/occupation-bbc1-dispatches-afghanistans-dirty-war.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Independent: Some still think of the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan as a &#8220;good&#8221; war. They may change their minds after watching the latest Dispatches, Afghanistan&#8217;s Dirty War. Last August, US troops went looking for Taliban insurgents in Aziz Abad, a small village 400 miles west of Kabul. After a brief firefight, they called in an air strike, whereupon an AC-130 gunship tore the village apart.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:10:53 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[AFGHANISTAN: Insecurity, lack of aid prompt IDPs to leave camp]]></title>
<link>http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2009/06/21/afghanistan-insecurity-lack-of-aid-prompt-idps-to-leave-camp.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[IRIN: Over 1,000 families in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kandahar Province, southern Afghanistan, have opted to return to their home areas in the north and northwest of the country because of worsening insecurity and lack of aid at the camp. Mohammad Azam Nawabi, director of the refugees&#8217; department in Kandahar, told IRIN 1,087 families had formally expressed their desire to return.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:03:56 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Honor-Killing in Afghanistan: Father Kills His Daughter and Her Lover]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[PAN (Translated by RAWA): A father brutally murdered his daughter and a young boy for having love affairs in Samangan province, Northern Afghanistan. He stabbed them many times with a knife. The girl was named Shakila and was 18 years old and the boy named Ghulam Sakhi was 22. This savage incident took place at 3 in the morning in Haji Umar Village of Aibak city (centre of Samangan).]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:16:17 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[&#8216;Bravest woman in Afghanistan&#8217;]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Washington Times: The "bravest woman in Afghanistan," in the view of her admirers, Ms. Joya has continued her defiant critique of the Afghan government two years after she was suspended from parliament for insulting her mostly male colleagues by likening them to farmyard animals."These warlords are killers, drug smugglers and dirty-minded criminals who are ruining our country, with support from the United States," she told The Washington Times in a recent interview at a safe house in Kabul. "This is a mafia regime that has betrayed its people."]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:48:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Three Women Killed, 11 Injured in a Clash of NATO and Taliban]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Three women were killed and another eleven civilian injured in a clash between NATO and armed Taliban the previous day in Dare Peech of Kunar Province. According to the governor, the Afghan and NATO forces retaliated and a fight took place. Wahidi said that during the clash some of the bullets were fired in a populated area on people&#8217;s homes, as a result of which 3 women were killed and 11 others, including 6 children, were injured.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:55:48 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Medical Student Beheaded by Militants at Kandahar University]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[PAN: Unknown assailants beheaded a university student in the southern Kandahar province, birthplace of Taliban movement, officials and witnesses said on Friday. Studying in a mosque on university premises, medical faculty student from Kabul Muhammad Mushtaq was stabbed to death just before noon, one of his classmates told PAN.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:01:46 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Helping Afghan Refugees as US Bombs Continue to Fall]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Huffington Post: Since 2001, the US Air Force has dropped nearly 31 million pounds (14,049 metric tons) of bombs on Afghanistan. The UN estimates that US airstrikes alone accounted for 64 percent of the 828 Afghan civilians killed last year.  Those numbers practically scream the need to abandon conventional warfare tactics in Afghanistan and dramatically shift US foreign policy to incorporate a more humanitarian approach. Instead, we're seeing the horrific images from IDP camps: refugees who have lost loved ones; parents so desperate they would rather sell their children than watch them starve; children scarred both physically and psychologically.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:40:47 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Help Afghans When Congress Approves 100 Billion Dollars More in War]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Rethink Afghanistan: $100 billion, and for what? To bring more troops to Afghanistan without an exit strategy?  To further US foreign policy that fails to address the humanitarian needs of the world&#8217;s third poorest country?  To escalate military operations that directly result in Afghan civilian casualties?... Fortunately, there are ways to take immediate action and address Afghanistan&#8217;s humanitarian crisis.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:33:28 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reporters in Afghanistan face restrictions]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan -- Journalist Qais Azimy and a colleague spent three nights as unwelcome guests at Kabul's fortress-like National Directorate of Security headquarters this week before they were released. What happened to Azimy and another Al Jazeera producer, Hameedullah Shah, happens often to local reporters who offend top Afghan political and security officials.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:53:45 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[AFGHANISTAN: Uphill struggle for potato farmers in Bamyan Province]]></title>
<link>http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2009/06/17/afghanistan-uphill-struggle-for-potato-farmers-in-bamyan-province.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[IRIN: Farmers in Afghanistan&#8217;s top potato-producing province are complaining about declining profits, mainly because of cold weather, lack of storage facilities and bad roads. Potato cultivation in Bamyan Province, central Afghanistan, employs thousands of people and output can top 150,000 tons a year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:04:15 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Weak become ever more vulnerable in Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The National: Juma Gul&#8217;s muffled crying became noticeable only when she wiped the tears away using her burqa or slumped forward with her head in her hands. Speaking Uzbek, she described how she made the equivalent of about Dh440 by selling her baby daughter off for marriage. The girl&#8217;s fiancé had memorised the Quran and his father promised that her virginity would be respected until she was an adult. The couple eventually wed four years ago, when she was eight and he was in his late twenties.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:35:15 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghanistan&#8217;s Hamid Karzai accused of compiling coalition of &#8216;gangsters and warlords&#8217;]]></title>
<link>http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2009/06/16/afghanistanand-8217-s-hamid-karzai-accused-of-compiling-coalition-of-and-8216-gangsters-and-warlordsand-8217.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Telegraph: The addition of Gen Dostum, who leads northern Afghanistan's Uzbek faction, sees Mr Karzai complete a controversial alliance of ethnic strongmen and former warlords for this summer's presidential elections. Mr Karzai last month defied international diplomats by choosing Mohammad Qasim Fahim, another ex-militia leader, as his running mate.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:21:09 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Musicians attacked at wedding by Taliban]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Reuters: Taliban fighters beat musicians, shaved their heads and left them tied to trees overnight because they performed at an Afghan wedding, a village tribal chief said Monday, a sign of the fighters' growing influence. The militants have returned to areas in the east and south of the country, where violence has sharply spiked in recent years.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:20:48 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s Afghan War, the US Media, and the UN: the New Metric of Civilian Casualties]]></title>
<link>http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2009/06/12/obamas-afghan-war-the-us-media-and-the-united-nations-the-new-metric-of-civilian-casualties.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[RAWA News: A tacit agreement operates between the Obama administration, the U.S corporate media, most progressive U.S. liberals, and the United Nations Assistance Mission for Afghanistan (UNAMA). All dream to a lesser or greater degree of a future social democratic paradise in Afghanistan where girls&#8217; schools would be flourishing and small farmers exporting pomegranates. Some debate exists over the means to achieve this end. Much ado has been made during the past five months as to whether the Obama approach to Afghanistan differs or not with that of its predecessor.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:46:27 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US-led Air Strike Killed 10 Civilians in the Central Ghor Province]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Quqnoos: A US-led air strike has killed 22 people, including 10 civilians in the central Ghor province, officials said. Deputy Governor of Ghor province, Ikramuddin Rezazada revealed that at least 10 civilians were killed in Tuesday&#8217;s air raid, carried out by the US-led coalition forces. A day earlier, US forces in statement said a prominent militant commander, Mullah Mustafa, and 16 other insurgents were killed in the bombing. Later, Mullah Mustafa in a phone interview told Quqnoos that he is &#8220;not harmed in the incident&#8221;.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:52:10 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Governor of Jowzjan Province Accused of Wasting Foreign Aid]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[RAWA News: Mohammad Hashim Zare, the governor of Jowzjan province in Northern Afghanistan, has been accused of wasting the aid donated to the people of this province by Turkmenistan, central government and other organizations which has been sent to the flood-affected people in that province. Ferouza Quraishi, the deputy of the Provincial Council of Jowzjan called the governor inefficient&#8221; and said the aid has not reached those in need.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:06:00 -0500</pubDate>
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