4 April 2016 BBC A group of Afghan activists and artists are attempting to reclaim Kabul after years of war - by arming themselves with...
AFGHANISTAN: Afghanistan’s ArtLords try to reclaim Kabul
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AFGHANISTAN: Obama’s Afghan Dilemma: To Bomb or Not to Bomb
BY: DAN DE LUCE, PAUL MCLEAR MARCH 15, 2016 Foreign Press As Kabul’s fragile army struggles to hold the line, will Washington’s warplanes come to...
DEVELOPMENT: Life Amid Conflict In Yemen: ‘Everyone has forgotten us’
By: Karl Schembri 21 March 2016 The Guardian More than 80% of the population is now in need of humanitarian aid. On a visit to the capital...
ON THE MEDIA/AFGHANISTAN: Afghan Women’s Radio Returns After Taliban Attack
By: LYNNE O'DONNELL Mar. 8, 2016 AP KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Six months after fleeing a Taliban assault on her city, the owner of an Afghan radio...
DEVELOPMENT: Secret Aid Worker: Buzzwords Are Killing Development
Tuesday 8 March 2016 The Guardian Words like ‘human-centred’ and ‘grassroots’ aren’t helping communities, they just make donors feel better about...
DEVELOPMENT: Does the west really care about development?
By: Jason Hickel 5 March 2016 The Guardian We need to stop pretending that the United States, France and Britain are benevolent champions of the...
ON THE MEDIA: Caught Between The East And West: The “Media War” Intensifies In Serbia And Montenegro
MARCH 10TH, 2016 By: Marija Šajkaš and Milka Tadić Mijović CIMA As EU and U.S. assistance to independent media in Serbia and Montenegro declines,...
ON THE MEDIA: In Burma, A Chance For New Momentum On Media Reform
MARCH 14TH, 2016 By: PAUL ROTHMAN CIMA As Burma’s new National League of Democracy (NLD)-dominated parliament nears the selection of the...
ON THE MEDIA: Here’s How 4 Hyper-Local Newsrooms are Harnessing Video
By: Josh Stearns This post first appeared on Medium. MEDIASHIFT In January, media consultant Mario Garcia wrote that 2016 would be “the year of...
AFGHANISTAN/DEVELOPMENT: Afghanistan’s surprisingly predictable economic crash
By Jared Ferrie Asia Editor 14 March 2016 IRIN Afghanistan’s economic collapse was sudden, surprising, and entirely predictable. When the United...
DEVELOPMENT: The Empowerment of Women Will Be Central to Realising Sustainable Global Development
By Mary Robinson original Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland,(1990-1997) and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights...
ON THE MEDIA: Every Day Is a Good Day to Hear More Women in the Media
By Farhana Haque Rahman original ROME, Mar 7 2016 (IPS) - On International Women’s Day newspapers and radio shows are filled with women’s voices....