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Weekly Digest of Central Asia
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Publisher’s note: Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Central Asia was the scene of intense geopolitical struggle and the …
US and Afghanistan sign renewable energy deal
KABUL (TCA) — The Afghanistan Government on September 23 signed agreements with Independent Power Producers to support four renewable energy project …

Uzbekistan president proposes establishment of a Permanent UN Committee on …
TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on September 23 called on the United Nations General Assembly to create a Permanent UN Comm …
Afghanistan: 75% of surveyed citizens in favor of republic
KABUL (TCA) — A survey by a Kabul institution of 4,912 Afghans taken by phone conversations across the country indicates that 75 percent of the resp …

Weekly Digest of Central Asia
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Publisher’s note: Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Central Asia was the scene of intense geopolitical struggle and the …
EU-funded Program on Border Management in Central Asia to include Afghanist …
TASHKENT (TCA) — The 9th phase of the EU-funded Programme on Border Management in Central Asia (BOMCA) held its closing event to summarise the achie …

Afghanistan's GDP to contract in 2020 due to COVID-19, ADB report says
KABUL (TCA) — Economic growth in Afghanistan is projected to decline sharply in 2020 as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and continue …
Weekly Digest of Central Asia
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Publisher’s note: Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Central Asia was the scene of intense geopolitical struggle and the …

Afghanistan peace talks begin
KABUL (TCA) — Nineteen years after the September 11 terror attacks in the United States led to a bloody conflict that ravaged Afghanistan and killed …
Afghanistan: Government, Taliban to start peace talks on September 12
KABUL (TCA) — Long-delayed peace talks between Taliban and Afghan government negotiators are set to kick off in Qatar on September 12, officials and …

Weekly Digest of Central Asia
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Publisher’s note: Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Central Asia was the scene of intense geopolitical struggle and the …
Russian Taliban payments underscore Moscow’s Afghan challenges
BISHKEK (TCA) — Russia has been increasingly trying to play a role in Afghanistan, and the whole Central Asia region, but its tools of influence in …

Afghanistan to construct hospitals, procure medical supplies financed by AD …
KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on September 2 witnessed the signing of three agreements totaling $23.95 million financed …
Afghanistan president names Reconciliation Council members to push talks wi …
KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has revealed the names of the appointed members and leaders of the country’s High Council for Nat …

Weekly Digest of Central Asia
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Publisher’s note: Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Central Asia was the scene of intense geopolitical struggle and the …
Afghanistan, Uzbekistan to sign pact on power transmission project
KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan’s Acting Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar and his Uzbekistan counterpart Abdulaziz Kamilov in a meeting in Tashken …

Taliban announces new department for intra-Afghan peace talks
KABUL (TCA) — The Taliban has formed a new 20-member department responsible for holding intra-Afghan talks, as well as negotiations with the United …
Weekly Digest of Central Asia
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Publisher’s note: Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Central Asia was the scene of intense geopolitical struggle and the …

Afghanistan: President says 'all barriers removed' for Taliban peace talks
KABUL (TCA) — Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says that "all barriers and excuses have been removed" ahead of expected peace talks between the governm …
Afghanistan: 16 million people in need of humanitarian aid, WFP says
KABUL (TCA) — More than 16 million Afghans are in serious need of humanitarian aid, said a spokesman for the World Food Program (WFP) in Afghanistan …

Weekly Digest of Central Asia
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Publisher’s note: Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Central Asia was the scene of intense geopolitical struggle and the …
COVID-19 and prospects for economic recovery in Afghanistan discussed
KABUL (TCA) — The COVID-19 pandemic has plunged the Afghan economy into a deep recession. The economy is projected to contract by 8.2 percent in 202 …

IFC supports Afghanistan women’s access to financial and non-financial se …
KABUL (TCA) — More than an estimated 5,000 women are expected to directly benefit from a new initiative led by Ghazanfar Bank, one of Afghanistan’ …
Afghanistan: Agreement on Taliban prisoner release brings peace talks a ste …
KABUL (TCA) — The Afghan government and the Taliban are on the verge of starting peace talks aimed at ending almost two decades of war in Afghanista …

Weekly Digest of Central Asia
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Publisher’s note: Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Central Asia was the scene of intense geopolitical struggle and the …
A third of Afghanistan population estimated to have coronavirus
KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan’s Health Ministry estimates that nearly a third of the country’s population — or 10 million people — has been infe …

Afghanistan: New World Bank grants to cushion impact of COVID-19 on poor ho …
KABUL (TCA) — The World Bank Board of Executive Directors on August 4 approved two grants totaling $210 million from the International Development A …
Weekly Digest of Central Asia
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Publisher’s note: Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Central Asia was the scene of intense geopolitical struggle and the …

Afghanistan’s export down 65% due to COVID-19
KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan’s exports have decreased by 65 percent over the past three months following a 4 percent increase in the first three mont …
More than 1,200 civilians killed in Afghanistan in H1 2020, UN reports
KABUL (TCA) — There were 1,282 civilian deaths in Afghanistan in the first half of the year, while another 2,176 people were wounded over the same p …

Weekly Digest of Central Asia
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Publisher’s note: Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Central Asia was the scene of intense geopolitical struggle and the …
US provides more than $36.7 million for COVID-19 response in Afghanistan
KABUL (TCA) — The United States government, through the U.S. State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has allocated m …

90% of Afghanistan population lives below poverty line
KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan’s Ministry of Economy on July 20 confirmed that 90 percent of Afghans are living below the poverty line, Afghan broadcas …
German analysis shows progress and shortcomings in Afghanistan
KABUL (TCA) — A "meta-review" (a report based on other reports) of Afghanistan development by the German government shows progress in certain areas …

Weekly Digest of Central Asia
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Publisher’s note: Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Central Asia was the scene of intense geopolitical struggle and the …
12 countries, including Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, ready to host intra-Afgha …
KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan’s Acting Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar at a press conference on July 16 said that 12 countries are ready to hos …

Hit hard by COVID-19, Afghanistan needs continued international support, Wo …
KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan’s economy is set to contract by between 5.5 percent and 7.4 percent in 2020 because of COVID-19, exacerbating poverty, a …
Red Crescent warns of 'catastrophes' in Afghanistan due to COVID-19 pandemi …
KABUL (TCA) — The Red Crescent Society says Afghanistan faces "catastrophes" as growing coronavirus cases are pushing hospitals and health clinics i …

Weekly Digest of Central Asia
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Publisher’s note: Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Central Asia was the scene of intense geopolitical struggle and the …
Cross-border initiative to support Afghan women’s education in Uzbekistan
TASHKENT (TCA) — The Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education of Uzbekistan, the Delegation of the European Union in Uzbekistan and th …

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