Sunday, January 13, 2008

Kabul gets only 3 hours of electricity a day, despite millions in U.S. and global aid

More than five years after the fall of the Taliban — and despite hundreds of millions of dollars in international aid — dinner by candlelight remains common in the Afghan capital of Kabul. Nationwide, only 6 percent of Afghans have electricity, the Asian Development Bank says.

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