Afghanistan’s president will meet world powers at a major conference in Brussels in a bid to secure financial aid from the international community up to 2020 to rebuild the war-ravaged nation. The US secretary of state, John Kerry, and the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, are among those who will join hosts Afghan president Ashraf Ghani and EU president Donald Tusk. Afghanistan is still struggling to negotiate peace with the Taliban and other militant groups who continue to wage a bloody insurgency. The Brussels conference follows up from a meeting in Tokyo in 2012 where the international community agreed to provide four billion euros a year in funding until the end of 2016. EU officials expressed some optimism about Afghanistan’s human development.

Source: The Guardian October 02, 2016 02:26 UTC