IWPR
Institute for War & Peace Reporting
Stories by the Author
Fury Over Threat to Canyon Isolates Montenegrin Leader
Potential flooding of UNESCO-listed site unites old political foes.
21 Feb 05
Watergate-Style Spying Scandal Rocks Zagreb
Revelations that the secret services placed the president under surveillance have pushed Croatia to the brink of a constitutional crisis.
21 Feb 05
Afghans Deliver Verdict on Karzai
President Karzai gets mixed reviews after his first year in office.
21 Feb 05
Cable TV Ban Angers Afghans
A supreme court ruling may result in a new dilemma for President Hamed Karzai.
21 Feb 05
Elite Guards Ready for Duty
Highly-trained Afghan troops prepare to protect the life of their president.
21 Feb 05
Girls Still Standing Outside the Classroom Door
As the second post-Taleban school year begins, poverty and prejudice are still keeping girls out of education.
21 Feb 05
Kabul River Return Delights Residents
City’s river flows once more after years of drought reduced it to little more than a trickle.
21 Feb 05
Poppy Destruction Dismissed as Stunt
Some observers say eradication programme is too little too late, but farmers insist they have no alternative to growing the deadly crop.
21 Feb 05
Loja Jirga Chaos Result of Unclear Rules
Imprecise procedural rules accounted for the embarrassing confusion on the first day of the Afghan grand assembly.
21 Feb 05
Support local journalists