USAID — The Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL), Assadullah Zamir and the Mission Director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Herbie Smith, agreed today to continue collaboration supporting activities that will help improve food economic security for rural Afghans. “This program strengthens farmers’ knowledge and skills on improved wheat, high value […]
Today, SIGAR published an inquiry into the Tarakhil Power Plant outside of Kabul. The letter inquires as to the power plant’s ability to supply Kabul with back-up power, given the $335 million investment made by USAID, and reports of electrical shortages in Kabul following avalanches in northern Afghanistan in February 2015. The letter notes:
However out of the common road seems to be, currently new security or military assistance providers rise up in the private sector. Private military companies (PMCs) are becoming a worldwide well-known occurrence. These quite new entities perform tasks in uncommonly blurred situations where the action of pointing out the boundaries between legal and illegal is […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American people have a proud and generous history of providing help during times of crisis. USAID remains committed to helping the people of Nepal and the region during this difficult time. Our thoughts are with the people of Nepal, India, and Bangladesh in the aftermath of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck […]
USAID — Engility Holdings will provide technical assistance services to the U.S. Agency for International Development for the Feed the Future program in Senegal under a four-year, $24 million contract. “Under this contract, we will continue to support the important work that is being done to help the farmers and agricultural programs in [Senegal],” said Tony […]