Tolo News: The Independent Joint Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Committee (MEC) on Sunday blamed leaders of the National Unity Government (NUG) for failing to deliver on their promises to fight corruption in the country. After assuming office, President Ghani reopened the Kabul Bank bankruptcy case as part of his anti-corruption steps. But Ghani’s undertakings failed to recuperate
Tolo News: The team tasked to investigate the controversial Smart City housing contract said Tuesday that it sent its report to President Ashraf Ghani one month ago but the Presidential Palace has not made public its details so far. The findings of the team reveal that the president’s former legal adviser Abdul Ali Mohammadi, Kabul Bank’s
Tolo News: Lawmakers from Badakhshan province said that the commander of an illegal armed group removed security troops responsible for the safety of a lapis lazuli mine out of Kiran-wa-Manjan district of the province in early 2014 and captured the mine. The lawmakers said that the commander and his armed men are illegally extracting the lapis lazuli
Tolo News: The moneychangers union in Kabul and the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) expressed their deep concern over trafficking of foreign currency through airports in Afghanistan. According to law, no one may take more than $20,000 USD out of Afghanistan without having permission. Click here to read more (external link).
Michael Hughes: The United States has spent some $2.3 billion on projects specifically designed to stabilize Afghanistan that have shown scant evidence of doing so or have actually undermined stability, the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said in a report on Friday. What makes this report even more pathetic is that it comes as
VOA News / January 29, 2016 ISLAMABAD – A U.S. government auditor says despite more than a decade of reconstruction and development efforts, Afghanistan’s economy remains in fragile and worsening condition. “Intractable insurgents, cutbacks in foreign military personnel, persistent emigration of people and capital, and a slowing global economy are shifting Afghanistan’s economic prospects from troubling
Newsweek: Billions of dollars spent by the U.S. government in Afghanistan over the past decade has failed to make the country safer or substantially improve its economic prospects, according to a new report from a U.S. government watchdog. Click here to read more (external link).
1TV: Ahmad Zia Massoud, the president’s Special Representative in Reform and Good Governance, blasted the unity government for considering partisanship and ethnicity in recruitment than competency. As many as 90 percent of civil servants are not professional to carry out their mandate, according to the official. Click here to read more (external link).
HRW: Afghanistan’s new national unity government failed to make significant gains in achieving human rights reforms in 2015, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2016. Little progress was made in reining in abusive militias, reducing corruption, promoting women’s rights, and reforming the courts. Click here to read more (external link).
By Pete Baumgartner January 27, 2016 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty An international monitoring group says people around the world demonstrated to governments in 2015 that they must become more transparent and tackle the large-scale corruption that continues to plague so many countries and hinder their development. In its 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released on January