Staying in a violent home country can be lethally dangerous – but thanks to European governments, sending family abroad is far from a guaranteed escape.
- Reader in Sociology, City St George's, University of London
An attack on a voter registration killed at least 57 people, and left scores more deciding where to go now.
Migrants sent back to Afghanistan face a very grim future.
The European Union has no qualms about using aid as a bargaining chip to pressure other countries into taking back refugees.
Ashraf Ghani has accused citizens of abandoning their country under the ‘slightest pressure’.
As Ashraf Ghani nominated the first woman judge to Afghanistan’s Supreme Court, the same court took a decision that enraged Afghans.
The Ghani administration had been crumbling for months before this attack on the Kabul parliament.
Mohamad Azim Husseinzada is one of those warm gentle men whose twinkling smile disarms and draws you in. Of all the staff at Kabul University, he has been the most open and enthusiastic about encouraging…
As I returned to Kabul last week news broke of the murder, by a suicide bomber, of the cousin of outgoing president Hamid Karzai. Hashmat Khalil Karzai believed he was embracing a young man in the traditional…
The date for the second round of the Afghan Presidential elections has just been announced – June 14. It will be a run off between Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzi. It can’t come soon enough…
An estimated 7m Afghans went to the polls yesterday to choose a new president. This was 2.5m more than the last poll and represents about 60% of the electorate. This result was achieved despite Taliban…
It began as a joke. Niamatullah, deported exactly a year ago from Denmark, had at last found a cousin in Kabul. This cousin, well-known in the community, suggested Niamatullah keep him company while he…
It has emerged that two of the passengers on the missing flight MH370 were travelling on stolen passports. Initially this was thought to suggest that terrorism might be involved in the disappearance, but…
We crossed the courtyard and followed 16-year-old Amin around the back of the house. We removed our shoes, walked down the dark hallway and turned into the small dark room. The two youngest children sat…
Six young men arrived at Kabul Airport on Tuesday, following deportation from Norway. Norway deports about this number of rejected asylum seekers every week, but it is not alone – Belgium, Germany and…
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