Jul 15, 2010
A farmer works in a poppy field in Marjah, Afghanistan, March 19. Afghanistan opium farmers are looking to make the switch from poppies to saffron. Dusan Vranic/AP Christian Science Monitor By Tom A. Peter, Correspondent / June 10, 2010 Herat, Afghanistan –...
Jul 15, 2010
World Beat by JOHN FEFFER | Tuesday, June 15, 2010 World Beat, FPIF’s weekly ezine According to the business plan of the 10,000 Women project, an investment of $100 million over five years will create 10,000 female entrepreneurs in the developing world. The...
Jul 15, 2010
Only 13.5% of US aid goes through Afghan Government – Call to clean up contracting system Lalit K Jha – May 21, 2010, Pajhwok News Agency, Afghanistan WASHINGTON (PAN): The Special Inspector-General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) stressed on...
Jul 15, 2010
by MICHAEL A. COHEN, June 11, 2010 Earlier this month, the Pentagon released a 152-page report outlining the increasingly grim situation in Afghanistan. The paper highlighted the Afghan government (and its security services) lack of capability; the enduring challenge...
Jul 15, 2010
Kabul is proposing to reward villages whose Afghan Taliban fighters surrender by disbursing cash through councils that already oversee aid money. Critics say that would make the councils Taliban targets. Afghan policemen stand guard at a check point of the Peace Jirga...
