One of the Iran’s biggest problems is drugs. According to the United Nations more than 60 per cent of the opium that’s produced in Afghanistan passes through Iran. The country gets millions of dollars of international assistance every year, but says that’s only a fraction of what it needs to fight the drugs trade. Al Jazeera’s Nazanine Moshiri reports.
Daily battles with local bandits, drug traffickers and the Taliban. These are just a few of the challenges facing Afghanistan’s soldiers who patrol the country’s borders coupled. Added to that, is corruption within military ranks. Nazanine Moshiri reports on the challenges being encountered by Afghan border patrols.
Italy may have contributed to more than its fair share of immigrants around the globe over the years, but it seems, these days, some Italians are becoming a little more choosey about the flow of people coming the other way. The town of Cittadella in northern Italy has become the first place to declare which immigrants can live within its medieval walls.Other towns could now follow suit. Nazanine Moshiri reports
Afghanistan is well known for its production of opium but cannabis production has been allowed to boom. Almost half of the country’s provinces now grow the drug. Al Jazeera’s Nazanine Moshiri reports from the Balkh province where it’s the only way for local farmers to make money.
A suicide bomber has blown himself up in Kabul, killing at least 13 people. His target was Afghan soldiers, but it was mostly civilians that died. The violence coincides with Al Jazeera obtaining a UN map revealing that almost half the country is now too dangerous for aid workers to operate in. Nazanine Moshiri, who sent this report from the scene of the blast, looks at how the violence has spread.