· January, 2009

Stories about Afghanistan from January, 2009

Afghanistan: Quibbling Over Terms

Joshua Foust reports that Afghanistan's foreign minister Spanta didn’t like that Hillary Clinton called his country a “narco-state” during her Congressional testimony.

19 January 2009

Afghanistan: First Female Mayor

Azar Balkhi writes that Ms. Ozrah Jafari has become a Mayor of the Daikondi province. She is the first woman occupying such a high-ranking position in the entire history of...

16 January 2009

From Kivu to Gaza: How the Media Choose the Conflicts They Cover

The debate on why the war in east Congo receives such little media attention compared to conflicts in the Middle East continues. A Rue89 journalist asks, "If an Israeli death is worth the death of several Palestinians, how many dead Congolese bodies for a Gazan funeral shroud?" Bloggers on both sides deplore the question.

9 January 2009