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Red Crescent Wants More Funding in Afghanistan But Not At Any Price
The Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) is always keen to get more funding but is unwilling to take money from some major donors for fear its impartiality could be compromised. We don’t accept funds from donors such as USAID [US Agency for International...
Call for Help for Internally Displaced Persons, Deportees in Helmand
Thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from insurgency-hit Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, need food assistance urgently, officials told IRIN. About 900 displaced families in the provincial capital Lashkargah have little or no means...
AFGHANISTAN: NATO Draws Flak for Fighting Insecurity with Aid
Abdul Hadi, a taylor, is ambivalent: “Yes the bazaar is better now than it was before because the Marines are here to provide security. Before it was the Taliban who controlled security – things were secure then but the Taliban used to threaten...
7-year-old Child Executed By the Taliban for ‘spying’
Taliban militants allegedly executed a 7-year-old child on June 8 for “spying for the government” in the volatile Helmand province of Afghanistan.
AFGHANISTAN: War of Words Over Marjah Displaced
The spokesman of the governor of Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan has clashed with local aid workers and the provincial refugee department over displaced people from the town of Marjah two months after a NATO and Afghan government operation to...
AFGHANISTAN: Call on Taliban to Respect Aid Volunteers
The Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) has condemned the brief kidnapping of a local humanitarian volunteer by Taliban insurgents in Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan. Read more of the story here at the IRIN news service: AFGHANISTAN: Call on Taliban...
138 Afghan National Policemen Graduate From First Course At the New Interim Helmand Police Training Centre
The Interim Helmand Police Training Centre has graduated its first cycle of Afghan national policemen during a ceremony on January 28th in the Lashkar Gah district. Helmand Deputy Governor Sattar Marzakwal, Maj Gen Gulam Ali Wahdat, Afghan Chief of Police...
British And Afghan Troops Restore Local Mosque
A bullet riddled mosque in Sangin, Afghanistan, has been repaired and kitted out with brand new washing facilities and a school building by British troops working with the Afghan National Army. After many years of conflict the mosque outside Patrol Base...
