Full Coverage: Afghanistan

28.02.2005 The World Food Programme has air-dropped food supplies over regions in Afghanistan which are inaccessible because of poor road conditions and heavy snow.

11.02.2005 More than a 100 people have been killed by acute respiratory infections, mainly pneumonia and whooping cough in southern, eastern and northern provinces of Afghanistan due to cold weather.

08.02.2005 Internews, with its partner, Future Generation, opened a radio station in the Ghazni province in Afghanistan. Four staff and seven volunteers produce five programs, including Nama ha wa Ahangha Shuma (“Your Letters and Your Songs”), a program designed to facilitate dialogue within the community.

07.02.2005 Only three countries--Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India--are still reporting new cases of polio, and even there the disease has been cornered in just a few areas. An all-out vaccination push this year could mark the end of the disease once and for all on the continent.

04.02.2005 The United States must be as careful in fighting the booming heroin trade in Afghanistan as it has been in waging war against Taliban and al Qaeda insurgents, according to 31 U.S., international and Afghan development and human rights groups.

04.02.2005 The Voice of Afghan Women, first started in 2001 after the fall of the Taliban, lost its funding and went off the air. Thanks to donations from Germany, it's back, but for how long?

03.02.2005 Radio Spin Ghar (White Mountain) that opened in December last year in Afghanistan is witnessing enormous success among audience. The radio reaches 220,000 people in the predominantly Pashto-speaking Nangarhar Province.

03.02.2005 Opium planting in Afghanistan has increased exponentially since the expulsion of the Taliban. Destruction of these crops by the US government is not the answer, say development agencies.

03.02.2005 It's great that the U.S. has apparently turned its attention and resources to addressing the drug trade problem in Afghanistan, says a group of 31 international and Afghan development organizations, but massive crop eradication plans would likely backfire, they warn.