Donors pledge €6.6bn for Afghanistan

Donor nations have pledged €6.6bn to help war-ravaged Afghanistan rebuild and confront threats from private militias and widespread drug cultivation over the next three years.

Now that the money is committed, officials from more than 50 nations meeting in Berlin were to turn their attentions today to how the aid would be used to ensure security in the country, where regional warlords are yet to be disarmed and a Taliban-led insurgency persists in the south and east.