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18 Jul 2020 A Threat at Kabul’s Southern Gate: A security overview of Logar province Logar – a strategic province at the southern gate of the capital Kabul – has been among Afghanistan’s most insecure provinces for years. The government only controls parts of three of its seven districts, in some cases not much more than (parts of) the district centre. This provides the Taleban positions closer to the capital [ ] 8 Jul 2020 Citizens, Finally, But No Place to Settle: The Magats, one of Afghanistan’s most marginalised minorities The Magats – a small ethnic group most frequently called ‘Jogi’ by others, a term often considered derogatory by them – have been living in Afghanistan for more than a century. Until recently, they were stateless but have now started a struggle forlegal recognition and acknowledgement of their identity. The first successes, such as registration [ ] 1 Jul 2020 ‘Ghosts of the Past’: New Special Report on Local Force Mobilisation in Afghanistan Today, AAN and the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) co-publish a new special report, ‘Ghosts of the Past: Lessons from Local Force Mobilisation in Afghanistan and Prospects for the Future’. The result of a three-year research project, the report considers why governments and their foreign partners have kept mobilising local forces in Afghanistan. It considers [ ] 25 Jun 2020 New World Drug Report: Opium production in Afghanistan remained the same in 2019 TheUnited Nations Drugs and Crime Office’s(UNODC) World Drug Report, released today, shows a decrease in the cultivation of opium in Afghanistan in 2019 following price falls after the bumper years in 2017 and 2018. However, in 2019 when weather conditions were optimal for growing poppy and plant disease absent, yields were high. Overall, that meant [ ] 19 Jun 2020 Covid-19 in Afghanistan (4): A precarious interplay between war and epidemic Afghans are now being killed by both the continuing war and Covid-19. The epidemic has ground much of life to a halt – with the notable exception of the fighting. In this report, AAN researchers Reza Kazemi and Fazal Muzhary (with input from Kate Clark) look at the interplay between war and disease. They provide [ ] 18 Jun 2020 UNAMA’s New Report on Anti-corruption: More backsliding from government and growing frustration from donors The annual UNAMA anti-corruption report released today shows that the institutional fight against graft in Afghanistan between January 2019 and April 2020 has stalled in many areas. While the report acknowledges that the reform agenda has been overshadowed by the presidential elections and the pandemic, it does not hold back from pointing to failures in [ ] 13 Jun 2020 Between Professionalism and Accommodation: The slow progress on the new cabinet More than three months after the inauguration of President Ashraf Ghani, a cabinet has not yet been formed. The appointments were delayed and disrupted by the dispute about the election outcome and the ensuing standoff, which had beset the country for more than two months. However, almost a month after the impasse was resolved, Ghani [ ] AAN ON TWITTERFollowAAN Afghanistan@AANafgh 9hSo glad you're reading our reports, but worried about the absence of gardening and baking in your life. Possible solution – read these AAN reports?Melonshttps://afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/context-culture/melons-afghan-riches-at-the-surface-level/Nothing on baking, but Lahndi?https://afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/context-culture/landai-season-a-delicacy-and-a-feast-in-rural-afghanistan/Gardenshttps://afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/context-culture/green-is-happiness-green-is-peace-gardening-afghanistan-from-babur-to-bost-hospital/ https://twitter.com/BeheshtiSoraya/status/1284878676555857920 Twitter 1285161245604220929AAN Afghanistan@AANafgh 9hSo glad you're reading our reports, but worried about the absence of gardening and baking in your life. Possible solution – read these AAN reports?Melonshttps://afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/context-culture/melons-afghan-riches-at-the-surface-level/Nothing on baking, but Lahndi?https://afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/context-culture/landai-season-a-delicacy-and-a-feast-in-rural-afghanistan/Gardenshttps://afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/context-culture/green-is-happiness-green-is-peace-gardening-afghanistan-from-babur-to-bost-hospital/ Twitter 1285161245604220929SayedAsadullah sadat@saidasadullah1 18 Julتهدید بیخ گوش کابل؛ نگاهی به وضعیت امنیتی لوگر گزارش جدید شبکه تحلیلگران افغانستان راجع به افزایش فعالیت طالبان در ولایت لوگر ممکن است بخشی از استراتژی محاصره کابل توسط این گروه پس از خروج نیروهای خارجی از کشور باشد.برای جزییات بیشتر https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/war-and-peace/a-threat-at-kabuls-southern-gate-a-security-overview-of-logar-province/@AANafgh https://twitter.com/ArianaNews_/status/1284456871210954754Twitter 1284467425346543618Stephen Carter@cartersf 14hMore conflict over #mining in #afghanistan https://twitter.com/AANafgh/status/1284458294841454592Twitter 1285093008111697920AAN Afghanistan@AANafgh 18 JulNew report on security trends in #Logar. Despite a few uncorroborated reports, #ISKP/Daesh no longer seems to have an active presence. Conflict between Taleban and ANSF continues and has intensified this year. #Afghanistanhttps://aan.af/2Cleub0 Twitter 1284480573218660354AAN Afghanistan@AANafgh 18 JulNew report on security in #Afghanistan’s strategic #Logar province finds fighting for control over hashish growing and chromite mines adding to the conflict; the still not opened copper mine at #Ainak is also the target of frequent attacks.https://aan.af/2Cleub0Twitter 1284458294841454592Thomas Ruttig@thruttig 18 Jullatest analysis @AANafgh: "Threat at #Kabul’s Southern Gate: A security overview of #Logar province" by @AliSabawoon1 and myself https://twitter.com/AANafgh/status/1284310683207831554Twitter 1284389397962657793Linda Hemby@LindaHemby 18 Jul#Logar #Afghanistan, where the government only controls parts of three of its seven districts, where mineral wealth and drug production is fueling the conflict, and where the Taliban flourish in the province's insecuritieshttps://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/war-and-peace/a-threat-at-kabuls-southern-gate-a-security-overview-of-logar-province/ @AANafghTwitter 1284446280031383553AAN Afghanistan@AANafgh 18 JulDoes control of territory and population in #Logar plus some popular sympathy for the Taleban put the insurgents in a comfortable position for any eventual military endgame in #Kabul?New report on security trends in this strategically-important provincehttps://aan.af/2Cleub0Twitter 1284359759009853440AAN Afghanistan@AANafgh 18 JulNew report on security in #Logar province finds in Baraki Barak district, Taleban pressure and limited government attention have led to a swing of mood among its large, originally pro-government Tajik population.https://aan.af/2Cleub0 Twitter 1284352224655822848Load More... Logar – a strategic province at the southern gate of the capital Kabul – has been among Afghanistan’s most insecure provinces for years. The government only controls parts of three of its seven districts, in some cases not much more than (parts of) the district centre. This provides the Taleban positions closer to the capital [ ] 18 Jul 2020 Reports Read more The Magats – a small ethnic group most frequently called ‘Jogi’ by others, a term often considered derogatory by them – have been living in Afghanistan for more than a century. Until recently, they were stateless but have now started a struggle forlegal recognition and acknowledgement of their identity. The first successes, such as registration [ ] 8 Jul 2020 Reports Read more Today, AAN and the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) co-publish a new special report, ‘Ghosts of the Past: Lessons from Local Force Mobilisation in Afghanistan and Prospects for the Future’. The result of a three-year research project, the report considers why governments and their foreign partners have kept mobilising local forces in Afghanistan. It considers [ ] 1 Jul 2020 Reports Read more TheUnited Nations Drugs and Crime Office’s(UNODC) World Drug Report, released today, shows a decrease in the cultivation of opium in Afghanistan in 2019 following price falls after the bumper years in 2017 and 2018. However, in 2019 when weather conditions were optimal for growing poppy and plant disease absent, yields were high. Overall, that meant [ ] 25 Jun 2020 Reports Read more A major new special report, ‘Ghosts of the Past: Lessons from Local Force Mobilisation in Afghanistan and Prospects for the Future’ looks at what is likely to make a local defence force –such as the Afghan Local Police (ALP) or Afghan National Army Territorial Force (ANA-TF) successful. This research sought to understand what makes some [ ] 1 Jul 2020 Special Reports Read more In a new AAN special report, Kate Clark considers the apparent paradox that despite almost two decades of international support to Afghanistan, poverty for most Afghans has deepened. She also explores the gap between the promise of the 2002 Bonn Agreement and 2004 constitution, a multi-ethnic, fully representative government, a democracy with strong checks and [ ] 29 May 2020 Special Reports Read more A new AAN paper seeks to understand why agricultural policy since 2001 has failed to increase production, lift rural Afghans out of poverty or secure their food supply. It finds the answers in the stories agricultural development planners tell themselves about how to ‘modernise’ agriculture, even as they ignore evidence from the field. AAN guest [ ] 27 Aug 2019 Special Reports Read more Kabul Unpacked: A Geographical Guide to a Metropolis In The Making Fabrizio Foschini Today, AAN publishes a new report, “Kabul Unpacked: A Geographical Guide to a Metropolis In The Making”. In maps and text, Author Fabrizio Foschini charts Kabul’s 22 police districts, their history, landmarks and architecture, population and security. We hope this guide will be a go-to, easily-used backgrounder for a city that many of us love, [ ] 2 Mar 2019 Special Reports Read more Any day now, a first diplomatic breakthrough toward peace in Afghanistan is expected: the United States and the Taleban have both announced that they have finalised their negotiations which would exchange withdrawal of the US and other NATO troops from the country for anti-terrorism guarantees from the Taleban. These negotiations started in October 2018 in [ ] 18 Feb 2020 Dossiers Read more Thematic Dossier XXIV: Ten years of reporting on civilian casualties, still no ceasefire AAN Team As the Taleban and the United States sit down together again to discuss the possibility of a peace agreement, the issue that appears to be most pressing for Afghans is a ceasefire. Not surprising given that 2019 is likely to be the sixth year in a row when the number of civilians killed and injured [ ] 30 Dec 2019 Dossiers Read more Since AAN was established ten years ago, drugs have often featured in our reporting, both directly and indirectly. Drugs and counter-narcotics efforts are not a priority for either Afghan politicians or foreign donors at this time. However, for anyone seeking to understand Afghanistan’s economy, people’s livelihoods and the political economy of elections, appointments and insurgency, [ ] 1 Aug 2019 Dossiers Read more The subject of Afghans trying to migrate to Europe and beyond may have dropped out of the headlines in the last couple of years, but AAN has continued to follow their stories. Getting into Europe and then getting across eastern Europe into the west has become much more difficult since we published our first thematic [ ] 25 Jun 2019 Dossiers Read more Acta Via Serica, 1 June 2020 AAN researcher Reza Kazemi has co-authored the article Family Matters: The Making and Remaking of Family during Conflict Periods in Central Asia for the peer reviewed journal in the June 2020 issue of Acta Via Serica: Journal for Silk Road and Central Asian Studies, published by Keimyung University [ ] 1 Jun 2020 Other Publications Read more SCA/SAK, 6 April 2020 Jelena Bjelica s AAN report, The Largest Standing Stupa in Afghanistan: A short history of the Buddhist site at Topdara, has been translated (and shortened) into a version in Swedish. 6 Apr 2020 Other Publications Read more After years of military interventions, the current situation in Afghanistan is highly ambivalent and partially contradictory – especially regarding the interplay of development, peace, security, education, and economy. Despite numerous initiatives, Afghanistan is still confronted with a poor security and economic condition. This volume investigates the tension between these ambivalent developments. Sociologists, political and cultural [ ] 11 Oct 2019 Other Publications Read more AAN Co-director, Thomas Ruttig discusses 30 years of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan (in German) – March 2019 Thomas Ruttig

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