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22 Dec 2000

Afghanistan + 2 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 22 December

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KYRGYZSTAN: Hepatitis crises in Osh
Authorities in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh are struggling to stem a severe outbreak of hepatitis, the Institute of War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) stated on Thursday. (www.iwpr.org)

Cases of viral hepatitis have almost tripled in the southern Kyrgyz oblast of Osh over the last year, as a result of the authorities' failure to enforce basic sanitary and hygiene standards, IWPR said. The source for many of the infections were the new snack-bars

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19 Dec 2000

Kazakhstan + 3 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 19 December

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PAKISTAN: Highest mortality rate among children in South Asia
Pakistan has the highest mortality rate for children under five in South Asia due to malnutrition and simple infections, UNICEF's "State of the World's Children" report issued on Monday revealed.

UNICEF sources in Islamabad told IRIN on Tuesday, conservative estimates show some 700,000 children under the age of five die a year of simple preventive diseases in Pakistan, 250,000 from diarrhoea alone. According to one official: "The first year is

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05 Dec 2000

Afghanistan + 1 other
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 05 December

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AFGHANISTAN: Labour markets in trouble: WFP
A study of the Afghan labour market and people's purchasing power conducted by the WFP has portrayed a grim picture of the country's war-devastated economy. The study measured purchasing power by calculating how much wheat a worker could buy with a daily wage, and found that purchasing power was down in all major Afghan cities.

Afghanistan's urban poor households relied for between 73 percent to 100 percent of their income on wage labour, according to the WFP study. Yet, in Faizabad, capital of the northern province of

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30 Nov 2000

Afghanistan + 4 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 30 November

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KAZAKHSTAN: More HIV cases reported in Pavlodar
Six more cases of HIV have been confirmed in the northern city of Pavlodar, bringing the total number of HIV-positive people in the town to 72, UNDP project coordinator for AIDS in Kazakhstan, Alexander Kossukhin, told IRIN on Thursday. News sources have reported a rise in infections in the city since May when an HIV-positive drug addict deliberately tried to spread the infection. To date, the government has acknowledged 1,275 cases of HIV infection, though UN sources told IRIN that the figure was "not less than 10,000."
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27 Nov 2000

Afghanistan + 7 others
Afghanistan: IRIN Special Report on Rapprochement with the Taliban

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ISLAMABAD, 27 November (IRIN) - The reality of Afghanistan is often difficult to swallow. A country ravaged by years of war - not to mention drought, poverty and hunger - Afghanistan is effectively ruled by the Taliban Islamic Movement of Afghanistan. That the Taliban controls up to 95 percent of Afghan territory is disputed by few, yet the legitimacy of the Taliban administration in Kabul is recognised by just three states: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Notwithstanding that fact, there is a recent change in attitude towards the Taliban among Afghanistan's Central
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16 Nov 2000

Afghanistan + 2 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 16 November

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AFGHANISTAN: Russia supports broad-based government
Long-accused by the Taliban movement of aiding the Northern Alliance's military struggle against it, Russia on Wednesday announced its support for proposed Afghan peace talks to end two decades of war in the country. "We are for settlement in Afghanistan. We want the two sides to sit down at the table and begin negotiations ... Only a broad-based government in Afghanistan can settle this situation," said Russian Ambassador to Pakistan Eduard Shevchenko at a press conference in Islamabad.
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13 Nov 2000

Afghanistan + 2 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 13 November

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AFGHANISTAN: Pakistan can't cope with refugee influx
Pakistan has denied reports that the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) has been closed, but admitted the entry of foreigners into the country was now being "regulated". Pakistani interior ministry secretary Hasan Raza Pasha told IRIN on Monday that his ministry was in touch with the Afghan authorities and had taken the necessary steps to regulate the movement of refugees. "We spoke of our concern of the free movement of these people in May and the Afghans agreed in principle
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10 Nov 2000

Afghanistan + 5 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 10 November

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AFGHANISTAN: Pakistan bans entry of Afghan refugees
The Government of Pakistan in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) announced on Thursday an immediate ban on the entry of new Afghan refugees into the province. The UNHCR spokesman in Peshawar, Roy Herrmann, told IRIN on Friday: "We are surprised by this news, and the UNHCR is currently meeting with Pakistani authorities at various levels in an effort to reverse the decision."

News sources reported that the Pakistani government had become alarmed at the recent influx of refugees into Pakistan

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03 Nov 2000

Afghanistan + 3 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 3 November

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AFGHANISTAN: US Ambassador meets Taliban envoy
Amid reports of a possible US air strike on the Afghan base of Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden, American embassy sources in Islamabad confirmed to IRIN on Friday that US Ambassador to Pakistan William Milam met with Taliban government envoy Mulla Abdul Salam Zaeef at the American embassy on Thursday.

While the embassy official declined to disclose the details of the meeting, news sources speculated that discussions focused on the threat of possible air strikes against bin Laden, who the

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26 Oct 2000

Afghanistan + 3 others
CIS defence ministers meet to discuss security in Central Asia

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DUSHANBE, Oct 26 (AFP) - Security threats to the Central Asian region are set to top the agenda at the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) defence ministers meeting in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe Thursday.

"The military and political situation in the Central Asian region will be one of the main topics of discussion at the meeting," Tajik defence ministry spokesman Zarobiddin Sirodzhev told AFP on the eve of the session.

"Central Asia is slowly becoming the capital of international terrorism with Islamic extremists trying to

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23 Oct 2000

Afghanistan + 5 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 23 October

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AFGHANISTAN: Favourable conditions for aid agencies
The ruling Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have pledged to improve the working conditions of international aid agencies, the pro-Taliban Bakhtar news agency reported last week. It quoted the acting foreign minister, Mowlawi Mohammad Solei'man, as promising at a meeting with aid agency representatives in the capital, Kabul, to create favourable conditions for relief activities.

Asked about this recent development on Thursday, the UN Coordinator for Afghanistan, Erick de Mul in Islamabad,

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20 Oct 2000

Afghanistan + 3 others
After a brief thaw, new chill hits Tajik-Uzbek relations

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Marat Mamadshoyev: 10/20/00

The recent insurgency against President Islam Karimov in Uzbekistan has helped introduce a new chill into Tajik-Uzbek relations. Uzbekistan's imposition of a visa regime for Tajik citizens, as well as Tashkent's decision to begin placing land mines along the border with Tajikistan, underscores how the insurgency has aggravated interstate relations.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Tajik-Uzbek relations have frequently been marked by tension. Authorities in Dushanbe have often been irritated with what they perceived

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18 Oct 2000

Afghanistan + 3 others
ICG Central Asia Briefing 18 Oct 2000

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Central Asia/Brussels, 18 October 2000
RECENT VIOLENCE IN CENTRAL ASIA: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES

I. INTRODUCTION

Beginning in early August, a series of violent incidents have brought more attention to the prospects for large scale conflict in Central Asia than at any time since the end of Tajikistan's civil war.1 Taliban forces launched a new offensive in northern Afghanistan, bringing that country's civil war and a potential refugee problem to the border of the ill-prepared Tajikistan. This offensive coincided with a series of low-level incursions into Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan

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18 Oct 2000

Kazakhstan + 4 others
Central Asia: Building Capacities Appeal No. 01.63/2000 Situation Report No. 3

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period covered: July-September, 2000

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13 Oct 2000

Afghanistan + 6 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 13 October

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AFGHANISTAN: UN calls for polio ceasefire extension
The United Nations Coordinator for Afghanistan in Islamabad on Friday called for both parties to the conflict to continue a ceasefire up to 17 October so that every child can be protected from polio.

According to the statement, although there had been reported ceasefire violations in Takhar and other areas, the autumn round of National Immunisation Days (NIDS) for polio eradication was successfully implemented in six regions of Afghanistan - North, South, East, West, Central, and Southeast. In Badakhstan and Takhar, the ceasefire

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06 Oct 2000

Afghanistan + 2 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 6 October

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AFGHANISTAN: Red Cross alert on Ghor province
The ICRC on Tuesday warned of malnutrition and increasingly harsh living conditions as a result of the current drought for rural Afghan communities, particularly in the central province of Ghor. Most wells and some springs were dry, the harvest of wheat - the main staple food - was "catastrophic" and some 5 percent to 10 percent of families had already left for cities (mostly the western city of Herat) in search of relief, it said. Some 2,000 newly-displaced families have
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29 Sep 2000

Afghanistan + 4 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 29 September

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AFGHANISTAN: Weather change sharpens IDP needs in northeast
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance in Afghanistan on Friday called on all parties to the conflict in northeast Afghanistan to ensure the security of the civilian population displaced by fighting and of aid workers trying to bring assistance to those in need. WFP, with help from the NGOs ACTED, SNI, and FOCUS, was providing food to 4,000 families (24,000 people) who have been identified as being most in need. Up to 40,000 displaced may
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26 Sep 2000

Afghanistan + 7 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 26 September

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AFGHANISTAN: Russia reinforces Tajik border posts
Russian border guards in Tajikistan have temporarily shut down a border crossing at Nizhny Pyandzh, opposite the river port of Sherhan in the northern province of Takhar, because of fighting close to the frontier between advancing Taliban forces and the Northern Alliance, the Associated Press (AP) reported on Monday. The Russians did not expect massive aggression from the Taliban but had reinforced border posts between Afghanistan and Tajikistan, from where the Northern Alliance
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01 Sep 2000

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Tajikistan: President under pressure from neighbours

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ISLAMABAD, 1 September (IRIN) - Uzbek President Islam Karimov this week called on Central Asian countries to coordinate their activities in fighting Islamist militias targeting his country. Calling them "international terrorists", he said Tajikistan should not allow the "common enemy" to take shelter on Tajik soil. Karimov said fugitives from Uzbekistan had undergone training in Afghanistan and eastern Tajikistan, and were now "professional militants and terrorists" who had been attacking Uzbekistan and Krygyzstan, reportedly from bases in Tajikistan.
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23 Aug 2000

Afghanistan + 4 others
The Makings of a Quagmire in Central Asia

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EURASIA INSIGHT

Justin Burke: 8/23/00

With sporadic fighting continuing between government forces and Islamic insurgents, Central Asia faces the prospect of becoming embroiled in a long-term conflict.

The first clashes this summer occurred August 7 in the mountainous Sukhandarya region of Uzbekistan. Since then, fighting has spread to the Batken region of Kyrgyzstan, the scene of a prolonged hostage crisis involving Islamic militants in 1999. [For additional information see the Eurasia Insight archives]. The insurgents reportedly

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