Ariana: AWCC officials said on Thursday people can now access 3G and 4G internet as well as communication services in five districts of Helmand its provincial capital Lashkargah, Spin Boldak of Kandahar, Zabul capital Qalat and Uruzgan. The AWCC is the only communications company that provides communication services in remote areas of Afghanistan. Click here
Reuters: The executive board of the World Bank on Tuesday approved a plan to use more than $1 billion from a frozen Afghanistan trust fund to finance urgently needed education, agriculture, health and family programs, the bank announced. Click here to read more (external link).
Michael Hughes AOPNEWS March 1, 2022 Three American senators urged the Biden Administration and the World Bank to immediately direct more than $1 billion from a reconstruction trust fund to pay the salaries of health workers and teachers in Afghanistan and inject liquidity into the country’s economy which they said is on the verge of
Tolo News: The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said Sunday that Chinese companies have been scouting ways to access Afghanistan’s lithium and copper mines. According to SIGAR’s tweet, “Afghanistan’s lithium deposits could be among the largest in the world, rivaling those of Bolivia.” Click here to read more (external link).
Lisa Schlein VOA News February 27, 2022 GENEVA — Humanitarian experts warn that more than 24 million people, or 59% of Afghanistan’s population, are living on starvation diets and forced to take extreme measures to survive. Eight senior emergency experts from U.N. and non-governmental organizations recently concluded a five-day mission to Afghanistan. They describe the level
Tolo News: Pakistan has recently cleared a legal mechanism to provide barter trade with Iran and Afghanistan as the former is under US sanctions and the latter’s bank’s reserves have been frozen by the US. Pakistan’s Dawn News reported on Friday that the decision was taken by the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet
8am: According to a source, the TAPI project was not implemented in Afghanistan due to Ajmal Ahmadi’s intervention. “Ajmal Ahmadi was the son-in-law of Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, and Ghani believed that Ahmadi was an economic genius,” said the former official at the Afghan embassy in Ashgabat. “He had monopolized the entire executive authority of the
Reuters: As Afghan universities reopen, some women can’t afford to return. Women and their relatives have lost jobs, straining finances. Economic crisis could reverse gains in female education. Taliban say they are working to support women in business. Click here to read more (external link).
Ariana: Badghis provincial officials said that more than 90 percent of farmers in the province have been badly affected by droughts but recent rain and snowfalls have been a welcome development for them. “Badghis relies on agriculture. People have suffered losses because of the [droughts affecting] agriculture. Fifty percent of the people have left the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 23, 2022 India has sent tons of wheat to help relieve food shortages in Afghanistan after it reached a deal with bitter rival Pakistan to allow shipments across their common border. India’s Foreign Ministry said on February 23 that about 50 trucks packed with the first 2,500 tons of wheat