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Afghanistan
Indonesia Donates $3.5 Million to Support School Feeding in Afghanistan
DID Press: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a generous contribution of USD 3.5 million from the Government of Indonesia to bolster school feeding programmes across Afghanistan. The contribution will allow WFP to procure over 1,200 metric tons of…
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UN Solar Project to Tackle Afghanistan’s Water Crisis
DID Press: As Afghanistan faces its most severe drought in decades, the UN, in collaboration with the World Bank, launched a $5.23 million project to expand solar-powered irrigation across five provinces of the country. The United Nations Office for Project…
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Caretaker Government: We Need Islamic Countries’ Support for Agricultural Development
DID Press: Acting Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock of Taliban caretaker government, in a meeting with the Deputy Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), urged support from the Islamic countries to strengthen water and agricultural projects in…
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Indian Official in Moscow to discuss Afghanistan, Trump’s Threats
DID Press: Indian NSA Ajit Doval arrived in Moscow to hold talks with senior Russian officials on security and defense cooperation, oil sanctions, and the upcoming Putin–Modi summit. Doval’s trip comes at a time when US president Donald Trump announced…
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Tatarstan Official in Kabul: Ready to Invest in Panjshir-to-Kabul Water Transfer Project
DID Press: Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs of the Taliban’s caretaker government, met with Oleg Vladimirovich Korobchenko, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Tatarstan, to discuss expanding…
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Poll Finds 67% Back up Establishing Afghanistan Political Mission in Iraq
DID Press: In a latest poll conducted by DID Press regarding the interim government’s priorities for removing obstacles to pilgrimages to the holy shrines, majority of respondents emphasized the need for Afghanistan to establish an active political mission in Iraq.…
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Unclear Process of Sending Afghanistani Workers to Qatar: From Contentious Registration to Uncertain Future
DID Press: Taliban’s Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs recently announced that it had begun registering workers for deployment to Qatar. Under an agreement with the Qatari government, 2,000 skilled Afghanistani workers are to be sent to the Gulf state.…
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Senior IOM Officials Visit Afghanistan, Warn of Migrants’ Critical Situation
DID Press: Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), accompanied by the Organization’s Regional Director, arrived in Afghanistan to strengthen coordination efforts aimed at addressing the challenges facing migrants. In a statement released on Tuesday, the IOM reported…
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Poll: Afghanistani Arbaeen Pilgrims Victims of Kabul’s Weak Diplomacy
DID Press: In a latest poll conducted by DID Press on the challenges faced by Afghanistani pilgrims traveling to Iraq, lack of an active Afghanistan’s political representation in Iraq was identified as the most important factor depriving these pilgrims of…
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1,430 Mes Aynak Artifacts Transferred to the Directorate of Archaeology for Conservation and Restoration
DID Press: The Directorate of Archaeology under the Ministry of Information and Culture of the caretaker government has announced the transfer of 1,430 archaeological artifacts unearthed from the Mes Aynak site in Logar Province to its Central Conservation Laboratory. This…
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