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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Efforts to Rebuild Afghanistan
By Jill Moss 1


Broadcast: Monday, August 23, 2004


This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report.


Efforts are being made to educate people in Afghanistan about the political process before their first presidential election. The vote is set for October ninth. Parliamentary and local elections are planned for next April. Voters will have their finger marked with ink so they cannot vote more than once.


The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs is a non-profit organization based in Washington. This group has opened six offices in Afghanistan to teach the public about political campaigns and fair elections. Another group, Internews, is working with local media and Internet providers to help guarantee freedom of expression.


The United Nations said last week that nearly ten million people have received voting papers. The number who signed up to vote, especially women, is higher than expected. More than forty percent are women. Females had few rights under the Taliban government.


Five years of Taliban rule ended in late two thousand one after American-led forces went to war in Afghanistan. The action against al-Qaida and its Taliban supporters followed the September eleventh terrorist attacks on the United States.


American officials say the Taliban and al-Qaida continue to operate along the Afghan borders. Fighting has increased recently. Election workers have been killed. The aid group Doctors Without Borders left the country.


But there are examples of other aid efforts in Afghanistan. The World Health Organization has launched an emergency campaign against leishmaniasis. This disease is spread by sand flies.


The World Bank has approved thirty-five million dollars for education. The U.N. refugee agency has launched a program to assist more than three million Afghans. And the Asia Development Bank has approved technical assistance to help rebuild roads.


But there is another problem. The U.N. says Afghanistan has again become the world's largest producer of heroin 2. Farming of opium 3 poppy to make the illegal drug has increased since the fall of the Taliban. Europe gets most of its heroin from Afghanistan.


In Kabul earlier this month, American Defense 4 Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told the Afghans they are winning in their effort to rebuild their country. But he warned that the drug trade threatens the future of their democracy and way of life.


This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Jill Moss. This is Gwen Outen.



n.苔,藓,地衣
  • Moss grows on a rock.苔藓生在石头上。
  • He was found asleep on a pillow of leaves and moss.有人看见他枕着树叶和苔藓睡着了。
n.海洛因
  • Customs have made their biggest ever seizure of heroin.海关查获了有史以来最大的一批海洛因。
  • Heroin has been smuggled out by sea.海洛因已从海上偷运出境。
n.鸦片;adj.鸦片的
  • That man gave her a dose of opium.那男人给了她一剂鸦片。
  • Opium is classed under the head of narcotic.鸦片是归入麻醉剂一类的东西。
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
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acetobutylicum
adverse drug events
after - sale service department
akasic
angelism
anorchus
answering machine
antipodists
antipyrino-caffeinum citricum
auto-Transfusion
Axenfeld's test
Bashir
black-on-black
bolometric method
Bolshevize, bolshevized
Burry Inlet
chopper spectrophotometer
clotbusters
combination carrier
complementary MOS integrated circuit
consolatory
critical magnetic flux density
Current Coupon
decline of water table
detonation wave
diareses
direct coupling system
direito
Doppler navigation system
dot speed
eacc
ECE
Edwin Drood
efficiency expert
electron-pair production
ever-handy
fancy for
feigned issue
fjord oceanography
flax dodder
fordist model
full-louvered door
functional assembly
further development
genus batrachosepss
genus Helipterum
group incentive plan
haulered
home-repair
icteric phthisis
indexlink
infidels
international liquidity units
Isocainide
isogredient
Jewified
longitude difference
major conjugate arc
man made satellite
means of fastening
megahenry
Middendorfa, Mys
minister of economic affairs
Morro, R.
NEC necessary
nonvascular organisms
nuculana husamaru
overlay contact
parameter model
pop-up missile
Pulindas
pump surging
relative degree of development
Republic of Finland
Richard Haldane
running set
Rupert
Ruppia maritima
sack trucks
safety colour
sanitoriums
satellite position
seven-card stud
shaped joist
shoot-em-up
singularity line
splittail
step up n.
superintending
supersalts
swine rearing
talipes planus
Tintigny
transprosed
uncollegiate
ungroup
value broker
waive sb off
X-Machine
You never know your luck.
zinc dichromate