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A day in the life of a civilian in Afghanistan

Posted by: Vicky Seymour, Posted on: 27 October 2008 - Categories: Afghanistan

I was in the air somewhere above Helmand the other day, flying in a Sea King helicopter, trying to do my commute-time reading, but a long way from the squeeze of the Tube.  A moment later, I was interrupted from …

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Things that go boom in the night

Posted by: Vicky Seymour, Posted on: 17 October 2008 - Categories: Afghanistan, Humanitarian

The themes of my week have been interrupted dinners and the frequent donning of body armour. Why?  On Saturday night, there was an attempted attack on Lashkar Gah - the first since the Taleban arrived here in the 1990s.  The …

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Poverty in Helmand

Posted by: Vicky Seymour, Posted on: 15 October 2008 - Categories: Afghanistan, Humanitarian

Three months ago, the bazaar in Garmsir, southern Helmand, stood empty.  Stalls were bare; some were shuttered, others all but derelict.  Fighting between the insurgents and the Afghan and international forces meant the population had left the district centre, leaving …

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