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The construction of six newly constructed projects in Tergari, Chardehi, Qala Malak, Shahidan Baba, Qala Sardar Shoib and Deqazi villages of Alishang district and capital of Laghman province have been secured hundreds of residential houses and thousands acres of agriculture lands from the threats of floods.

Dr. Suraya Dalil, Minister of Public Health of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Traveled to southern Kandahar province and inaugurated the Health Science Institute by cutting the ribbon in a ceremony with participation of Kandahar governor, Mr. Torialai Wisa, on Wednesday. The foundation stone of this institute was laid down by Dr. Suraya Dalil, one and half year ago.

This institute has been constructed by financial support of $ 2.7 million of U.S. army in two floors that each floor has ten teaching classes with capacity of 250 to 300 students.

May 5, 2012 - President Hamid Karzai met on Saturday with Mr. Didier Reynders, the deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium.

Deputy PM Reynders, leading a delegation to Kabul briefed the President on his visit to troops serving in Kunduz, Kandahar and Kabul.

President Karzai thanked Belgium for all the assistance it has made to Afghanistan over the past eleven years and hoped the bilateral cooperation can further be expanded.

May 2, 2012- President Hamid Karzai strongly condemned the suicide bombing carried out on Wednesday in Qabel Bay area of Kabul city that killed and injured a number of Afghan civilians.

According to the information provided by MoI officials, three insurgents including one wearing a burqa entered an area [the Green Village compound] near Qabel Bay high school in Kabul where a suicide bomber exploded a car full of explosives, leaving 7 dead including two school children and 17 others wounded among whom were 5 school students too.

KABUL – Senior officials from Afghanistan, Pakistan and the United States held the sixth meeting of their trilateral Core Group Friday in Islamabad.

The Afghan delegation was led by Mr. Jawed Ludin, Deputy Foreign Minister, the Pakistani delegation was led by Mr. Jalil Abbas Jilani, Foreign Secretary and the United States delegation was led by Mr. Marc Grossman, special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The Minister for Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) His Excellency Wais Ahmad Barmak signed an agreement with a private company for supplying safe drinking water to 120,000 inhabitants of Nimroz Province today.

This project costing approximately USD 12 million is funded by the Government of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and will supply drinking water for the residents of QalayFath village, Charborjak district, located 35km from the provincial capital of Zaranj city.

Afghanistan Rural Enterprise Development Program (AREDP) of the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) seeks to create employment opportunities and eradicate poverty situation in the rural communities, therefore a work team of this program left for Balkh province.

The aforesaid team and local officials of the AREDP visited various villages of Dehdai and Nahr-e-shahi districts. They explained the basic objectives of the program and economic growth of rural families through creation of career fields which will be established through the program.

El Director Nacional de ONEMI, Benjamín Chacana, participó esta tarde en la Región de Arica y Parinacota, en una reunión de evaluación del Comité de Operaciones de Emergencias (COE), presidida por el Intendente Regional, José Durana Semir.

Durante el COE, se analizaron las medidas adoptadas por los organismos de respuesta. Benjamín Chacana, indicó que “se mantendrá el monitoreo permanente de las condiciones de riesgo y se está desplegando toda la ayuda necesaria en atención a las personas afectadas”.