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Taliban Hyping Huge Mining Deals, But Afghanistan Still Far From Cashing In

23rd September, 2023 · admin · Leave a comment

By Abubakar Siddique September 23, 2023 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty The Taliban has been celebrating since the Islamist group that rules Afghanistan signed seven mining contracts promising to attract more than $6.5 billion in investments late last month. But experts are skeptical about whether the contracts, signed on August 31 with Afghan-based companies aligned with foreign

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Posted in China-Afghanistan Relations, Corruption, Economic News, Taliban | Tags: Corrupt Taliban, Natural Resources, rare minerals, Taliban looting resources |
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Afghanistan’s mineral wealth must be responsibly managed

13th September, 2023 · admin

Arab News: There are reports that the revenues from mines, besides helping the Taliban run its government machinery, are also partially being channeled into the private pockets of some of the Taliban leaders. If true, this could be another chapter in the long history of thefts of the national assets of Afghanistan. Another example is

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Posted in Corruption, Economic News, Taliban | Tags: Deforestation, Natural Resources, rare minerals, Taliban looting resources |
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Taliban Sell Afghanistan’s Mines Despite Sanctions

7th September, 2023 · admin

Akmal Dawi VOA News September 7, 2023 WASHINGTON — The Taliban, facing international sanctions and a dire economic outlook at home, have intensified efforts to leverage Afghanistan’s vast natural resources. From oil to copper, gold and lithium, the Islamist leadership, unrecognized by any nation as Afghanistan’s legitimate government, has inked multibillion-dollar mining deals with Chinese and

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Posted in China-Afghanistan Relations, Economic News, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Natural Resources, Secretly funding Taliban, Taliban looting resources |
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Chinese Company Offers $10b Investment in Afghanistan’s Lithium Deposits

14th April, 2023 · admin

Khaama: The Afghanistan Ministry of Mines and Petroleum said on Thursday that a Chinese Company, Gochin expressed its interest in investing $10 billion in Afghanistan’s lithium deposits. According to the statement, the acting minister for mine and Petroleum, Shahabuddin Delawar, met with the Chinese company representatives in Kabul. Since the Taliban takeover of the country,

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Posted in China-Afghanistan Relations, Economic News, Taliban | Tags: Lithium, Natural Resources, Taliban looting resources |
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‘Not A Problem But A Disaster’: Afghan Canal A Test For Taliban Ties In Water-Stressed Central Asia

6th April, 2023 · admin

By Chris Rickleton Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 5, 2023 When the Taliban returned to power in 2021 in a lightning military insurrection that toppled Afghanistan’s internationally recognized government, the country immediately fell into diplomatic isolation. Two of Kabul’s neighbors to the north, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, chose a different route, putting the hard-line group’s fractious history

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Posted in Central Asia, Economic News, Ethnic Issues, Taliban, Uzbekistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Land grabbing, Natural Resources, Pashtunization, Turkmenistan-Afghanistan Relations, water |
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Uzbekistan’s Concerns over Qosh Tepa Canal Project: Sends Delegation to Negotiate with Taliban

27th March, 2023 · admin

8am: On Tuesday, March 7, Uzbekistan’s media reported that the delegation would visit Afghanistan. According to the report, Uzbekistan’s government is concerned about the decrease in water available for the country’s farmers due to the continued excavation of the Qush Tepa canal by the Taliban. Taliban had previously said that they were willing to negotiate

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Posted in Economic News, Taliban, Uzbekistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Natural Resources, water |
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Afghanistan as a Site of U.S.-China Competition

17th February, 2023 · admin

Lawfare: Despite the CCP’s concerted efforts to approach its relationship with the Taliban pragmatically, with economic incentives and a concrete security agenda, the reality of the current situation in Afghanistan is highly volatile. While blaming the U.S. and Western countries for the ongoing financial and humanitarian disaster in the country, the Taliban appear more focused

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Posted in China-Afghanistan Relations, Economic News, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Natural Resources, Taliban Security Failure |
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Taliban Arrest Chinese Nationals for Allegedly Smuggling Afghan Lithium

22nd January, 2023 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News January 22, 2023 ISLAMABAD — Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have arrested five men, including two Chinese nationals, for allegedly trying to smuggle an estimated 1,000 metric tons of lithium-bearing rocks out of the country. The arrests and the seizure of the rocks were made in the eastern Afghan border city of Jalalabad.

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Posted in China-Afghanistan Relations, Economic News, Taliban | Tags: Lithium, Natural Resources, smuggling |
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Chinese Investment in Afghanistan’s Mining Sector: Samples Collected From Lithium and Gold Mines in Ghazni

13th January, 2023 · admin

8am: Speculations have mounted that China will seek dominance over Afghanistan’s mineral resources, particularly its lithium, gold and other rare-earth ore deposits, following the final US withdrawal from the country in August 2021. Local sources said on Thursday, January 12, that experts from two Chinese firms have visited Ghazni province for technical studies of lithium

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Posted in China-Afghanistan Relations, Economic News, Taliban | Tags: Ghazni, Lithium, Mining, Natural Resources, Taliban looting resources |
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Afghanistan’s mining industry never achieved its potential, despite US efforts: SIGAR

10th January, 2023 · admin

Ariana: The US government spent nearly $1 billion to fund critical mineral surveys, mineral exploration, regulatory reforms and capacity development for the former Afghan government, according to the report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR. “US efforts in Afghanistan’s extractives industry presented one of the greatest opportunities for the Afghan government

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Posted in Economic News, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Illegal Mining, Mining, Natural Resources |
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