Afghanistan: Well Meaning Futility

About the Author"Tony Clifton worked for Newsweek for 30 years and covered the wars in Biafra and Vietnam, the Lebanon civil war, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the 1971 Bangladesh war and subsequent...

Record-breaking opium crop destabilises Afghanistan

Afghani's, impoverished ,living in a decades war torn country see cash and survival in an illicit crop.  Western Nations shovelling Token payments of Hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to try and get...

Puff, Puff, Past: Eradicating Moroccan Cannabis

"Morocco, which has slashed cannabis cultivation by nearly half over the past four years, hopes to eradicate the main remaining area of cultivation in the northern Rif mountains by opening up the region and introducing substitute crops. The eradication programme encourages...

Pakistan and Afghanistan Agree to Help ...

Within this year India, Pakistan, Nigeria and Afghanistan will receive levels of vaccination coverage that have made outbreaks of Polio  a thing of the past for the rest of the world, according to the World...

Woodland scheme in battle to cut council energy bill

"NEW sources of heating and electricity could be created by planting trees and treating household waste as part of plans to eradicate fuel poverty in Bradford, according to a new report."

Israel, EU condemn Iran's Holocaust conference

"Israel's prime minister, German leaders and the European Union's top justice official are among those who condemned Iran on Tuesday for hosting a controversial conference questioning the Nazi genocide of...

New Polio Case in Kenya Jeopardizes Eradication

"The case, Kenya's first in 22 years, was imported from Somalia and marks a resurgence in East Africa brought on in part by anti-western policies set by Islamic clerics. Kenya has reported its first polio case in 22 years with the infection of a 3-year-old Somali refugee girl...

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