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
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...
Jul 10, 2010
National Public Radio, Morning edition, Report on National Solidarity Program Transcript: MARY LOUISE KELLY, host: This is MORNING EDITION, from NPR News. Good morning. I’m Mary Louise Kelly, in for Steve Inskeep. RENEE MONTAGNE, host: And I’m Renee...
Jul 1, 2010
What Marja Tells Us of Battles Yet to Come By C. J. CHIVERS New York Times, June, 10, 2010 Tyler Hicks/The New York Times. Afghans passed through a Marine checkpoint last month in Marja, where fighting has continued since a highly publicized assault on insurgents in...
