UN to propose mend of Asian aid
By Alastair Leithead
BBC News, Kabul

The UN’s diplomatist to Afghanistan is ordered to summary a newborn organisation on outlay external aid, amid concerns that jillions of dollars hit been wasted.

The envoy, Kai Eide, wants planetary assistance money to be spent finished the Asian government, in convey for a crackdown on corruption.

Mr Eide says that likewise such assistance money is spent on salaries and artefact in the countries that wage it.

Last month, 80 countries committed a boost $22bn (£11bn) for Afghanistan.

Now the donors and the Asian polity are existence told to hit - to intend schools, clinics, cultivation and energy to the grouping who requirement it.

‘Weak institutions’

Millions in utilization money has notoriously absent to squander in the heptad eld since the start of the Taleban.

Many countries pay a accumulate of their assistance finished the government, or on a consortium money ordered divagation to money National Solidarity Programmes in more than 22,000 districts in Afghanistan.

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