Building a Viable Microfinance Sector in Afghanistan
11 February 2010
Paula Kantor and Erna Andersen, Building a Viable Microfinance Sector in Afghanistan, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU), 31 January 2010
EXCERPT: "The microfinance sector in Afghanistan is going through a period of reform. This is due largely to the consequences of an early emphasis on rapidly achieving operational sustainability through growth in client numbers and loans made. This focus reduced attention given to issues of...
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Afghan Tribe Makes First Step in Anti-Taliban Pact
11 February 2010
, The Canadian Press, 11 February 2010
EXCERPT: "The man accused of running drugs and abetting the Taliban sat on a bench in a room full of Afghan elders, glancing warily at the American diplomat and the Afghan police commander on either side of him. The Americans had been planning to arrest 28-year-old Qari Rahmat, but held off in the hope that the leaders...
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Taliban Vow Guerrilla Warfare against NATO
11 February 2010
, AFP, 11 February 2010
EXCERPT: "The Taliban vowed on Thursday to fight back with a "hit and run" guerrilla campaign against Western and Afghan forces preparing to storm one of their key strongholds in southern Afghanistan. Thousands of US Marines and NATO and Afghan soldiers have massed around the town of Marjah, a Taliban bastion in Helmand province, poised to launch one of the...
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Afghan Govt in Tentative Talks with Insurgent Leader
11 February 2010
Afghan Govt in Tentative Talks with Insurgent Leader, Miami Herald, 11 February 2010
EXCERPT: "Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, one of Afghanistan's most brutal Islamist warlords, is holding tentative peace talks with the government of Afghanistan that could cause a split in the Taliban-led insurgency, Afghan politicians in Kabul said Wednesday. The terms Hekmatyar has outlined are softer than those proposed by the Taliban, who have demanded that...
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