Atlantic Council & Oxfam Reports: Afghanistan's Future 'in Peril'

In the latest violence, the deputy governor of Afghanistan's Helmand province has been killed in a bomb attack on a mosque, officials say. 'Failing state' The three reports have appeared two years after a road map for international assistance was agreed in London. Oxfam said a "major change of direction... to avert a humanitarian disaster" in Afghanistan was needed. In an open letter, Oxfam predicts a "humanitarian disaster" in the country, pointing out that millions of dollars of development aid is being wasted The charity says that the international approach towards Afghanistan is lacking in direction and is "incoherent and uncoordinated". "There are very many factors to explain the increasing insurgency, and of course criminality and the role of warlords and drugs traffickers is very important," said Matt Waldman, policy advisor on Afghanistan for Oxfam International. "But we also have to understand that recruitment is much easier when people are living in desperate circumstances," he said. ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7219488.stm

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