FINCA International, one of the world's leading microfinance institutions, provides financial services to more than 700,000 clients through 21 wholly-owned and operated subsidiaries in Africa, Eurasia, Latin America and the Greater Middle East.

FINCA Afghanistan is currently seeking to fill the following positions:


**Senior Bank Managers, FINCA Afghanistan
FINCA International, a leading global network of microfinance institutions providing loans to over 700,000 entrepreneurs in 21 coun more...

TEHRAN, Sept 6 (Reuters) - The head of the United Nations refugee agency called on Saturday for greater efforts to increase voluntary refugee returns to Afghanistan, which have virtually come to a halt amid a worsening security situation.

Around 4.5 million Afghans who fled their homeland during 30 years of almost continual war began returning from neighbouring Pakistan and Iran after the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban.

But Antonio Guterres, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refuge more...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide a $55 million loan to the leading mobile phone provider in Afghanistan, so it can extend its coverage to parts of the country that have little or no telecommunications infrastructure in place.
“This expansion will introduce mobile phone services to remote and war-torn areas, which lag far behind in the nation’s reconstruction efforts and for which telecom services are vital,” said Mr. Michael Barrow, a Director of ADB’s Private Sector Depart more...

The ArtVenture Freedom to Create Prize has been launched to recognise artists who use their talents to promote creative freedom, empathy, understanding and to confront discrimination and oppression.
This unique and significant creative award carries a US$ 100,000 prize divided between three categories.
1. The ArtVenture Freedom to Create Prize is open to artists who promote human rights, empathy, equality and understanding and carries a US$ 50,000 award.
2. The ArtVenture Freedom to Create Y more...

KABUL (PAN): Minister of Public Health Dr. Syed Muhammad Amin Fatimie launched a three days national immunisation campaign aimed at polio eradication in Kabul on Saturday. Beginning from August 3, the campaign featuring more than 52,000 Public Health Ministry staffers and volunteers would continue for three days. With technical and financial support from the World Health Organisation (WHO), United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and the donor community, the ministry said the supplementary drive w more...

July 29 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 1215 GMT on Tuesday:

* denotes new or updated item.

* PAKTIA - A lawmaker survived a roadside bomb blast on Monday but three of his body guards were killed and three more wounded when the device hit their convoy in the southeastern province of Paktia, a provincial official said.

KANDAHAR - Afghan soldiers backed by international air support killed and wounded more than 10 insurgents when the militants engaged t more...

WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - Sunday's bold Taliban raid that killed nine American soldiers was no surprise to analysts who have been warning that the U.S. effort in Afghanistan needs more troops, aid and attention.

In the latest sign of a marked increase of violence in Afghanistan this year, Taliban insurgents took over a nearby village and used buildings there to launch a complex assault on an outpost near the Pakistan border.

'What we're watching is not some sudden upsurge,' said se more...

VIENNA, Virginia, June 11- Afghan data from the Women In Muslim Countries (WIMC) Study is now available as a paper from D3 Systems. The paper explores Afghan women’s attitudes and tangible experiences exercising their rights afforded by the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Findings include discussions of variations in women’s experiences by region and socio-economic status in Afghanistan. The full paper can be found at http://www.d3systems.com/public/p more...

The commitments made recently in Paris to help Afghanistan must be met to prevent the erosion of support for the United Nation’s efforts, the world body’s top envoy to the strife-torn South Asian nation said today.

Hungarian photographer Balazs Gardi has been named Photographer of the Year in the Px3 Prix de la Photographie, Paris 2008 and Human Condition Competition. Mr. Gardi took first place in the categories of Professional Photojournalism and General News for his image The Valley in which an Afghan man holds a wounded young boy in front of a house on 20 October 2007 in Yaka China village, Kunar province, East Afghanistan. According to the caption, the boy received several shrapnel wounds from a rocket more...