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KABUL (TCA) — Opium production in Afghanistan dropped by 29 percent last year, the United Nations anti-drug agency reported, a decrease attributed mainly to a severe drought, RFE/RL reports. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Central Asia Drug Action Programme (CADAP) on September 26 officially handed over the building of the Rehabilitation and Social Adaptation Centre "Clean zone" based at the correctional institution #2. In the only female correctional institution in Kyrgyzstan located in Stepnoye village, the construction of the “Clean zone” for convicted women who made a choice to quit using psychoactive substances, has been completed. Continue reading
KABUL (TCA) — The Afghan Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock held an agricultural exhibition in Kabul earlier this week that demonstrated crops “alternate to opium poppy cultivation”, Afghan broadcaster TOLOnews reported. Continue reading
KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan CEO Abdullah Abdullah on May 29 said that poppy cultivation and drug production increased by over 90 percent in Afghanistan despite millions of dollars spent to overcome the problem in the past few years, Afghan broadcaster TOLOnews reported. Continue reading
KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan’s Ministry of Counter Narcotics on May 21 raised concerns over the increase in poppy cultivation in the country, saying that this year the trend has increased by 11 percent against last year, Afghan broadcaster TOLOnews reported. Continue reading
KABUL (TCA) — Commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan John Nicholson has announced a two-year plan to drive back the Taliban and help Afghan security forces take control of at least 80 percent of the country, compared to the less than two-thirds they control now, RFE/RL reports. Continue reading
