Afghan War Blog

Slo w Progress in Badghis. Officials in this northwestern province of Afghanistan are warning that there will likely be public protests...

NGO Meeting in Kabul.   A meeting was held presided by the Afghan government with representatives from Non-Governmental Organizations t...

Fiber-Optic Line. The Afghan Ministry of Communication and IT (MCIT) says that a fiber optic cable line streaming an Internet connectio...

Lapis Lazuli Route.  A planned transit corridor is expected to play a significant role in the growth of Afghanistan's economy. Th...

TAPI: A Milestone in Country's Economic Development.  The start of the construction of the Afghanistan section of the Turkmenistan-...

Railway Corridor.  The Afghanistan National Railway Authority (ANRA) says that a report for the establishment of 880 klics of railway l...

Afghan Marble Mine in Herat (Photo by Melissa Skorka, ISAF CAAT, 2013) Afghan Mineral Development.  Afghanistan is reach in natural ...

Solar Power Water Pumps (USAID photo) Solar Energy & Education.  USAID is helping schools and farmers across Afghanistan to be equip...

$520 Million from World Bank. A multi-million dollar package of funding for projects is to be used to assist Afghanistan's economy, ...

$$$ for Crop Diversification. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the European Union (EU) are providing $76 million in grants to enhance c...

The Heart of Asia (HoA) conference will be held in December. Over 14 nations across the Central and South Asian region will participate. ...

Aid Successes in Afghanistan.  A short news report cites the successes in development aid that have taken place in Afghanistan despite the s...

Afghanistan and the WTO. In December 2015 it was decided that Afghanistan could join the World Trade Organization . This should have some...

Lessons Learned - Stability Opns in Afghanistan.  Charles Barham, a retired U.S. Army Colonel, continued service to his country by working...

Saffron Pipeline.  A bunch of Afghan veterans (who are also Harvard grads) are making it easier for  Afghan farmers to export Saffron . ( ...

RECCA and Silk Road. Afghanistan hosted the sixth Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan - RECCA VI- in Kabul. Afghanistan...

Photos - United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). "Since 2002 UNEP has played a key role in laying the foundations for sustainable...

Paper on Economic Management in Afghanistan. Afghanistan's economy remains weak and its fiscal situation dire. A new paper for the Afgh...

Four Reforms Necessary for Afghanistan's Economy. According to one observer Afghanistan's economy will be able to stand on its own ...

Report on Canada's Afghanistan Development Program. The Canadian government hired the Dutch company Ecorys Netherlands in 2013 to condu...