The 30-member interim Afghan government formed under UN guidance during meetings in Germany last month will rule for six months while a Loya Jirga, or traditional assembly of elders, forms another government to run the fractured country until elections two years later.
The World Bank and UN said in a report unveiled in Brussels that Afghanistan will need US$9 billion in aid over the next five years to rebuild after two decades of war.
The German parliament launched an extraordinary debate yesterday on plans to send up to 1,200 troops to Afghanistan as part of the UN-mandated, British-led security force.
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