Donors pledge €10bn in aid for Afghanistan
At a conference in Paris, Washington promised $10.2bn to help one of the world’s poorest countries deal with an insurgency, poverty, drug trafficking and corruption, more than six years after US-led forces ousted the Taliban from power.
About 6,000 people were killed last year in the insurgency by a rejuvenated Taliban, which has vowed to step up a campaign of suicide bombings to try to break the will of Western public opinion to keep international forces in Afghanistan.
