BISHKEK (TCA) — More than 300,000 people are expected to benefit from improved services and facilities in their villages thanks to US$ 10 million in financing in the Community Support Project associated with the Central Asia South Asia Electricity Transmission and Trade Project (CASA-1000). The Kyrgyz CASA-1000 Community Support Project was approved on April 10 by the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors, including US$ 5 million a concessional credit and US$ 5 million as a grant. An additional grant of US$ 2 million is being provided from the CASA-1000 Multi-Donor Trust Fund supported by the UK Department for International Development and the US Government.

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KABUL (TCA) — Eklil Hakimi, Afghanistan’s Minister of Finance and Shubham Chaudhuri, World Bank Country Director for Afghanistan on April 10 signed a new $691 million grant package to help Afghanistan revitalize its economy and improve access to quality healthcare, the World Bank said.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Authorities in Tajikistan have lodged a formal request for Turkey to extradite two Tajik opposition politicians who were detained in Istanbul on March 19, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reports.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — To spur trade connectivity between the Central Asian and Baltic markets, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is conducting a horticulture trade mission and study tour to Latvia and Lithuania during the week of April 9-14, 2018. The visit began with an opening ceremony on April 9, in Riga, Latvia.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan’s foreign minister says Dushanbe is expecting a Russian delegation to attend an international conference on water resources in Central Asia that his country will host in June.

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KABUL (TCA) — Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in a television interview over the weekend that the US is responsible for the death of Afghans and is behind the Afghan crisis and that only Russia can help Afghanistan, TOLOnews reports.

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