It's all looking rather normal here. The office is in a quiet corner of Kabul, away from the hustle and bustle, away from the markets, away from the embassies and missions, away from the soldiers and police. So I feel more secure than expected.
The United Nations has a 4-tier warning system with regard to security. The tiers are
Green - normal activity
White - essential movement only
Yellow - no movemement whatsoever
Red - evacuate
With the distrubances over the weekend the security assessment moved to White or 'white city' in the parlance. No idea why, probably a self-referential joke. But it took me a while to work out that 'White City' was not a place that the UN retreated to.
As I had planned to spend as much of this visit as possible somewhere in the white and yellow zone, this is not a particular problem. However I had hoped to visit a field office in the far west of the country this week, however that has been postponed in the expectation that the disturbances will settle down after a week. And if they don't settle down the visit will be cancelled. So I leave my trip in the hands of an uneducated US 'pastor'.
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