After $145 billion spent on reconstruction over two decades, the latest SIGAR report described the overall picture in Afghanistan as ‘bleak’.
EU's envoy to Palestine Sven Kuhn von Burgsdorff, who is visiting the besieged Gaza City for the first time since the ceasefire agreement with Israel, says the bloc would do its best to address people's humanitarian needs.
Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, said that Gaza's reconstruction needs to be accompanied by "a genuine political process," during a visit to the Palestinian enclave after Israel's devastating strikes.
Israel not only controls the cycle of destruction, but ironically, also holds the keys to reconstruction.
Following UAE's normalisation with Israel, the gulf state - in collusion with Egypt - are openly supporting the oppressive Syrian regime, banding against Turkey in northern Syria.
Trump cut funding to Syria the same month Saudi Arabia pledged $100 million for the reconstruction of the war-torn country. Now he says Riyadh will pay for all the costs of the US-led air strikes instead of Washington.
Iraq hopes to raise billions of dollars in pledges at the three-day meeting in Kuwait, as the country reels from years of war and economic turmoil.
Estimates for the massive reconstruction effort range from $100 billion to $350 billion, with some running even as high as $1 trillion.
20 female Afghan engineers are breaking taboos which consider women to be too weak to work on construction projects.
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