Cash-keen Taliban betting on Afghanistan’s mines
Goshta (Afghanistan) (AFP) - A miner in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan poured water over a block of jade, exposing ...
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Tag: Afghanistan
Afghan women turn to entrepreneurship under Taliban
Kabul (AFP) - When Zainab Ferozi saw Afghan women struggling to feed their families after Taliban authorities took power, she ...
Afghanistan says to begin work on huge gas pipeline
Islim Cheshma (Turkmenistan) (AFP) - Afghanistan said Wednesday work would begin on a $10 billion gas pipeline traversing South Asia ...
Taliban govt harbours big dreams for Afghan rail
Hairatan (Afghanistan) (AFP) - On the edge of the Afghan border with Uzbekistan, where the railway abruptly stops, throngs of ...
Unemployed Afghans risk death and debt in hunt for gold
Yaftal Sufla (Afghanistan) (AFP) - Tearing off a piece of mouldy flatbread, Homayon gulped tea in a brief reprieve from ...
World Bank endorses new Afghanistan approach which could unlock $300 mn
Washington (AFP) - The World Bank's executive board endorsed a new approach to its relationship with the people of Afghanistan ...
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