With the inauguration of 15 uplift projects of the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development in the province of Samangan, 1897 families benefited from wide range of facilities provide. Meanwhile work on another major work for food project in Nenegarhar Province started today. The completed projects in Samangan province include digging and cleaning of 1.4km [...]

With the completion of 55 development projects of the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) in Maidawardak, Logar and Badakhshan provinces, 3,682 rural families are provided with wide arrays of various facilities. 49 completed power projects in Chak district of Maidanwardak totaling US$966,000 (AFs48300000) funded by MRRD are implemented through National Solidarity Programme (NSP), [...]

Works to rehabilitate and complete the Khanabad irrigation system in Kunduz province, the third largest in the country, started this week. The project will supply irrigation water to 500 thousand beneficiaries in the Khanabad area in a more reliable and equitable way, improving agricultural output and livelihoods. It will also reduce environmental damages caused by [...]

Prominent entrepreneur, international investor and a member of the Saudi Royal family, Prince Al-Walid bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, said yesterday in a meeting with the Afghan President Hamid Karzai here in Kabul, that perception given by media about Afghanistan has been inaccurate. “Afghanistan has plenty of investment opportunities and the conditions security-wise [...]

Japan to provide a fresh grant of 3 billion Japanese Yen (approximately 29 million U.S. dollars) to Afghanistan. the two countries signed an agreement in Kabul yesterday Hideo Sato, the ambassador of Japan to Afghanistan, and Mohammad Kabir Farahi, the deputy to Afghan Foreign Ministry, signed the agreement on behalf of their respective governments. The [...]

For the first time since its establishment, the Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) has published an Investors’ Directory of its registered companies, which aims to market the businesses within Afghanistan and abroad as well as ease communications between the companies, customers and other interested parties. Director of Research and Policy Department of AISA, Said Mubin [...]

Mohammad Ehsan Zia the Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development signed 19 development contracts worth US$1,649,752 with the private companies in Kandahar province. These project which are designed to provide needed facilities, respond the socio-economic necessities and improve the quality of life in rural communities and include construction of 2 health clinics, construction of 12.5km [...]

With the support of the FAO Integrated Dairy Development project in Herat Province, farmers of primary cooperatives in Enjil, Guzara and Karokh districts have been organised into a higher level cooperative structure called the Herat Livestock Development Union (HLDU). This is the first livestock development union in Herat, and the fourth union established in the [...]

Safi Airways is now flying from Kabul to London Gtawick Airport and to Frankfurt. Safi Airways would be the first afghan airline to fly to to London and the first private afghan airline to fly to Frankfurt. Only the sate owned Ariana Airlines fly to Frankfurt at the moment. Thousands on Afghans are are living [...]

Afghanistan’s 3rd quarter Exports in 2007 increased by 19.6% compared to 2006 according to figures from Central Statistics Office. In the third quarter of 2007 Afghanistan’s exports reached $107 million vs. $87 million for same period in 2006.