Tolo News: A new investigation has revealed how Afghanistan’s multi-billion dollar lapis mines are driving corruption, conflict and extremism in the country. According to Global Witness the Taliban and other armed groups are earning up to $20 million USD dollars a year from Afghanistan’s lapis mines. In a statement issued by Global Witness it said: “As a result,
The Washington Post: HERAT, AFGHANISTAN — Amid the city’s swirling winds, construction crews work steadily to create a new downtown strip that, someday, will include high-rise office towers and thousands of new homes. That’s bad news for people like Nesar Ahmad Papalzai who have watched the rising property values in their city in western Afghanistan contribute to
VOA News Ayaz Gul May 31, 2016 ISLAMABAD—The number of Afghans who have fled violence and remain trapped in their own country has doubled over the past three years, says a new report by Amnesty International. A staggering 1.2 million people are internally displaced in Afghanistan, showing a dramatic increase from some 500,000 in 2013,
Pravda: The CIA has a long history of being involved in global drug trade in all parts of the world under the control of the US or where it has considerable influence. While a few cases have been investigated and exposed by journalists, the issue continues to remain in the shadows. The CIA’s history began in the
Khaama Press: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has said he does not want an apology from the British Prime Minister David Cameron for describing Afghanistan as ‘fantastically corrupt’. In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today program, Ghani said Afghanistan was “one of the most corrupt countries on earth”. Click here to read more (external link). Related UK
Tolo News: With worsening air pollution and growing mounds of garbage in Kabul, a city that still has no mayor, members of the public on Wednesday slammed the president for not fulfilling his election campaign promises. They said that in the run up to elections, President Ashraf Ghani promised to take a corrupt municipality, Kabul, and turn
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 11, 2016 British Prime Minister David Cameron has said Afghanistan and Nigeria had taken “remarkable steps forward” on corruption, after calling the countries “fantastically corrupt.” Addressing MPs on May 11, Cameron said the countries’ leaders were “battling hard against very corrupt systems.” Cameron’s original comments about the two countries came
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 10, 2016 British Prime Minister David Cameron has described Afghanistan and Nigeria as “fantastically corrupt.” It was not clear whether Cameron knew he was being filmed and recorded when he made the comments at a London reception on May 10. “We’ve got some leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries coming
KABUL, May 5 (Xinhua) — Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said on Thursday that the Afghan government is firm in fight against administrative corruption and would step up efforts to eliminate the menace in the country. “The administrative corruption is still a big challenge. The Afghans are fed up with corruption. But we are firmly
Politico: For years, John Sopko has played the media and rattled the Afghan reconstruction effort. Now, lawmakers are questioning his methods. Sopko, hailed by many as a heroic advocate for taxpayers for his prolific work as the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, threw a sudden punch at a now-defunct Pentagon task force he had long accused