Ariana: Health officials in Herat province say a three-story Hematology Hospital will be built in the province to treat patients with blood disorders including leukemia. According to the officials, the construction of this project has been made possible by donors including a charity organization, businessmen and investors. Click here to read more (external link). More
Hindustan Times: In a tweet, the UN refugee agency in Afghanistan wrote, “UNHCR Afghanistan is moving swiftly to provide 1000 earthquake-resilient houses to more than 8000 people in Barmal District before snows isolate the remote region.” The houses will be handed over to the victims of the earthquake, the UNHCR said in a thread of
8am: The Organization for Health Promotion and Management (OHPM) has reconstructed 33 health centers in Helmand province that were destroyed by the Taliban. During the course of the last 20 years, the Taliban damaged and destroyed all public and private infrastructures. Health, education, and transportation infrastructure were the most valuable and primary targets of the
Ariana: Members of the Haqqani family and Paktia residents have laid the first foundation stone for a new madrassa, that will be named after the network’s founding father Mawlawi Jalaluddin Haqqani. The religious studies school will be built on four acres of land in Gardez city in Paktia province and is being sponsored by local
Tolo News: An airport in Khost, which aims to become one of the international airports in the country, will be fully operational in near future, a progress that will happen 10 years after the start of its construction, officials said but did not provide an exact time. Afghanistan has four international airports in Kabul, Herat,
Michael Hughes AOPNEWS May 15, 2021 Tehran and Kabul reached a preliminary agreement that would see $5.3 billion invested in developing Afghanistan’s infrastructure, an Iranian Roads and Urban Development Ministry (MRUD) official said, as the two countries look to strengthen relations in the wake of the U.S. military withdrawal. Around $2.2 billion of the funding
Tolo News: The construction of a volleyball gymnasium at the National Olympic Committee’s compound will take six months as its work has progressed by 25% so far, officials said on Friday. The government has invested 43 million Afs ($55,000) in the construction of the gymnasium that officials said will meet international norms. Click here to
Tolo News: The International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas (ALIPH) has announced a joint project with the Afghan government and the Agha Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) for research and the construction of a “vast archeological park”at the site of Bala Hissar Citadel in Kabul, said an ALIPH press release. Click here
Jeff Seldin VOA News March 10, 2021 WASHINGTON – Any hope for a political settlement and peaceful end to two decades of war in Afghanistan remains under significant threat from rising violence, both at the hands of the Taliban and from multiple terrorist and extremist organizations, as well as from the Afghan government’s inability to
Ariana: Minister of Mines and Petroleum Mohammad Haroon Chakhansuri on Thursday said that construction work on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) Pipeline Project will kick off next year. The minister also said that another project the ministry is working on is the construction of a 94.5 km-long gas pipeline from Sheberghan, capital city of Jawzjan province, to