International community discusses rebuilding of Afghanistan

The international community was today discussing plans for the recovery and rebuilding of Afghanistan, which the United Nations likens to the five-year reconstruction of war-ravaged Mozambique that cost $6.5bn (£4bn).

The United States and Japan are co-hosting a meeting in Washington with donors and international organisations to start clarifying how the international community should approach the mammoth recovery and reconstruction effort, the UN Development Programme’s administrator said.