- In the country now, the government is undergoing their first election in 13 years.
- Hamid Karzai is the current president of Afghanistan, but he will step down after the current election is over.
- The most recent election was inconclusive because there was no clear winner. No candidate received more than fifty percent of the votes.
- The two frontrunners of the last elections were both worked closely with Hamid Karzai, and in that case, not a lot of things would be changed in Afghanistan. (Taken from The Guardian in the April 24th Current Events Postings.)
- The election will be redone in June of this year.
- The key challenges that Afghanistan is facing right now are that they need to pay for their recovery, and need to guarantee education for everyone.
- We consider the events in Afghanistan a revolution because a terrorist group who took power was eliminated, and the people established their own government.