1TV: Afghanistan ranked 157th out of 167 countries in 2015 on internet coverage, same position it held five years back, according to a report by the U.N. organization for telecommunications. South Korea is number one on the list followed by Denmark and Iceland. Click here to read more (external link).
Bakhtar News Agency: The Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) inaugurated its first Mycotoxin testing lab at the Badam Bagh Fairground in Kabul, Afghanistan. This lab will be used to identify and assess the quantity of Mycotoxin in products aimed for export markets. Click here to read more (external link).
Reuters: A new road linking the Afghan capital with a trade hub near Pakistan has been stuck in the slow lane since a state-owned Chinese company took the contract to build it two years ago, bedeviled by militant attacks and accusations of mismanagement. Click here to read more (external link).
Khaama Press November 18, 2015 A section of Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Tajikistan railway construction which falls within the Turkmen soil has been completed, it has been reported. According to a statement released by the government of Turkmenistan, the construction of the railway has been completed up to the border of Afghanistan. The statement further added that the length
1TV: Two electricity transmission contracts worth $82 million were signed between Afghan national power utility and Indian, German companies. The contracts cover connecting 500KW from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan, 220KW from Sheberghan city to Mazar-i-Sharif city and building substations in Andkhoy and Sheberghan cities. The projects are expected to be completed by 2017. Click here to
KABUL, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) — The Afghan Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in the country have launched a new five-year project, aiming to deliver improved public services, the IDLG said in a statement on Sunday. The project called, Local Governance Project-Afghanistan (LoGo), which was launched on Saturday,
KABUL, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) — Under an agreement signed here Saturday, the World Bank agreed to provide 250 million U.S. dollars as grant to Afghanistan to improve its roads across the Hindukush mountains, a statement released by Afghan Finance Ministry here said. The agreement was inked by Afghan Finance Minister Eklil Hakimi and Bob Saum,
Press Release | November 08, 2015 Office of the President Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, spoke this morning at the second national urban conference in ARG. In the conference, the President said that in every district a complex will be built for presence of government and
Capital Press: Amadullah Zamir, the minister of Afghanistan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock, is touring the Pacific Northwest to learn how the U.S. cooperative extension system is organized and develop a first-hand understanding of on-farm water management and effective irrigation practices in arid-zone agriculture. Click here to read more (external link).
Ariana News: Afghanistan Minister of Urban Development in presentation of his first 100 days work says that land grabbing caused the delay for construction of New Kabul City. Sayed Sadat Mansour Naderi, minster of Urban Development notes that challenges against this important and big project, particularly solving the problem of land ownership are still in