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KABUL - Despite some four million Afghans becoming literate since 2002, Afghanistan still has one of the highest illiteracy rates in the world with about nine million illiterate adults, according to the Afghan Ministry of Education.
KABUL - Today H.E. Wais Ahmad Barmak – Minister of the Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) – together with senior government officials and members of the community, inaugurated the construction of a 2.6 kilometre asphalt road in Kabul city.
KABUL - More than 180 female judges from across Afghanistan discussed problems they face while going about their duties, at a four-day annual conference of an umbrella body of female judges which concluded in the capital, Kabul, today.
BAMYAN - Two schools in the Yakawlang district of Afghanistan’s central Bamyan province have spent the past two weeks serving as the pilot sites for a United-Nations backed community policing project – locally known as Police e-Mardumi – aimed at improving public safety.
KABUL - Six ministries of the Government of Afghanistan were the focus of a workshop on implementation of Gender-responsive Budgeting (GRB) that concluded, here today.
KABUL - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has granted Afghanistan membership to International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), which seeks to secure coordinated and effective action to prevent and control the introduction and spread of pests of plants
HERAT - The Governor of western Herat province, Fazlullah Wahidi, announced on Monday that the province's main airport will be reconstructed with financial support from the governments of Italy and Spain.
BALKH - During their first ever direct interaction with their constituents, about a dozen lawmakers from the northern Afghan province of Balkh said last week that despite their efforts to end corruption it still remains a serious problem facing the country.
KUNDUZ - Schoolchildren in Afghanistan’s north-eastern province of Kunduz held a protest march recently, calling for limits on the sale of toy guns in local markets.
KABUL - Long isolated even from its neighbours, Afghanistan may soon find itself at the centre of a Central Asian railroad network that promises to unlock new trade routes and spur economic development.