The study, the first large-scale survey of mental health among young people in Afghanistan, found that one in five schoolchildren in northern Afghanistan is likely to suffer from a psychiatric disorder, and that day-to-day violence and stress were as much the cause of the children’s suffering as the war-related brutalities they witnessed.
Extensive coverage including Daily Telegraph, BBC, Channel 4, etc.

Emmanuel de Dinechin comments on Afghanistan's economic situation and perpectives.

Altai Consulting has been awarded the Prize for Best French Presence Overseas by the French Senate for its 5-year work in Central Asia.

[...] Altai Consulting is a name familiar to most expatriates in Kabul, partly because of the speed with which Mr de Dinechin and his 33-year-old business partners Rodolphe Baudeau and Eric Davin have built the country's biggest advertising firm [...]

[...] L'un part en mission à la frontière du Pakistan, le deuxième a plusieurs rendez-vous, le troisième, fébrile sur son ordinateur, doit conclure un rapport... On est pourtant à Kaboul. Pas à Londres, Paris ou New York ! Comment imaginer que, dans un pays considéré comme l'un des plus pauvres du monde, de jeunes entrepreneurs mènent une activité si trépidante ?

Minefields are rarely thought of as a boon for big business. But for Afghanistan's largest telecoms operator Roshan, the country's war-shattered infrastructure has been exactly that. Telecoms have bucked the trend, with 4.5 per cent of the population using mobile phones - an astonishing figure given Afghanistan's poverty, said Emmanuel de Dinechin, of Kabul-based consulting firm Altai.