Afghan policemen stand guard at a check point during Eid Al Fitr, a Muslim festival marking the end of Ramadan. REUTERS
Afghan policemen stand guard at a check point during Eid Al Fitr, a Muslim festival marking the end of Ramadan. REUTERS
Children play during Eid Al Fitr. Reuters
Children play during Eid Al Fitr. Reuters
A religious scholar speaks as Muslim devotees offer prayers at the start of the Eid Al Fitr. AFP
A religious scholar speaks as Muslim devotees offer prayers at the start of the Eid Al Fitr. AFP
A religious scholar speaks as Muslim devotees offer prayers at the start of the Eid Al Fitr. AFP
A religious scholar speaks as Muslim devotees offer prayers at the start of the Eid Al Fitr. AFP
Afghans leave after prayers during Eid Al Fitr at a mosque in Kabul. REUTERS
Afghans leave after prayers during Eid Al Fitr at a mosque in Kabul. REUTERS
An Afghan man leaves after prayers during Eid Al-Fitr at a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan. REUTERS
An Afghan man leaves after prayers during Eid Al-Fitr at a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan. REUTERS
An Afghan man gestures after the prayers during Eid Al Fitr at a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan. REUTERS
An Afghan man gestures after the prayers during Eid Al Fitr at a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan. REUTERS
A man sits outside the Pul-e Khishti mosque at the start of the Eid Al Fitr festival in Kabul on May 24, 2020. AFP
A man sits outside the Pul-e Khishti mosque at the start of the Eid Al Fitr festival in Kabul on May 24, 2020. AFP
A health worker checks the body temperature of a Muslim devotee as a preventive measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus at the start of the Eid Al Fitr at Wazir Akbar Khan mosque in Kabul. AFP
A health worker checks the body temperature of a Muslim devotee as a preventive measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus at the start of the Eid Al Fitr at Wazir Akbar Khan mosque in Kabul. AFP
Afghan men take part in prayers during Eid Al Fitr at a mosque. REUTERS
Afghan men take part in prayers during Eid Al Fitr at a mosque. REUTERS
Afghans leave after prayers during Eid Al Fitr at a mosque in Kabul. REUTERS
Afghans leave after prayers during Eid Al Fitr at a mosque in Kabul. REUTERS
A security officer stops motorists at a checkpoint on a road at the start of the Eid Al Fitr festival. AFP
A security officer stops motorists at a checkpoint on a road at the start of the Eid Al Fitr festival. AFP
Muslims offer prayers at the start of the Eid Al Fitr at the Wazir Akbar Khan mosque in Kabul on May 24, 2020. AFP
Muslims offer prayers at the start of the Eid Al Fitr at the Wazir Akbar Khan mosque in Kabul on May 24, 2020. AFP
An Afghan man wearing a protective face mask takes part in prayers during Eid Al Fitr. Reuters
An Afghan man wearing a protective face mask takes part in prayers during Eid Al Fitr. Reuters
Afghan policemen take part in prayers during Eid Al Fitr in Kabul, Afghanistan May 24, 2020. REUTERS
Afghan policemen take part in prayers during Eid Al Fitr in Kabul, Afghanistan May 24, 2020. REUTERS
Men offer Eid Al Fitr prayers outside a mosque in Kabul. AP
Men offer Eid Al Fitr prayers outside a mosque in Kabul. AP
An Afghan boy prepares sweets at a traditional bakery for Eid Al Fitr holiday to mark the end of Ramadan. AP
An Afghan boy prepares sweets at a traditional bakery for Eid Al Fitr holiday to mark the end of Ramadan. AP
Afghan men prepare sweets at a traditional bakery for Eid Al Fitr holiday to mark the end of Ramadan. AP
Afghan men prepare sweets at a traditional bakery for Eid Al Fitr holiday to mark the end of Ramadan. AP
Afghan men prepare sweets at a traditional bakery for Eid Al Fitr holiday to mark the end of Ramadan. AP
Afghan men prepare sweets at a traditional bakery for Eid Al Fitr holiday to mark the end of Ramadan. AP

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Why blackouts are so common in Afghanistan

The Covid-19 pandemic presents an opportunity if not a critical need to reform the country's electricity sector

Emily Burlinghaus

May 26, 2020

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Early this month, Afghanistan’s electricity sector took three major hits after blasts crippled transmission towers in Kabul’s Chimtala area and Charikar city in Parwan province. The next day in Charikar, explosives detonated at the site killed one official and injured four more employees from the country’s state electricity company, Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (Dabs), as they were making repairs.

Attacks on Afghanistan’s electricity infrastructure have been on the rise since the US-Taliban peace deal was signed on February 29. Late last month, Kabul and much of eastern Afghanistan were sent into blackout conditions when militants detonated an improvised explosive device at a transmission tower near the capital.

As the Afghan government struggles to contain the spread of coronavirus, the resurgence in violence has exacerbated its inability to ensure hospitals and households have access to critical resources like electricity and drinking water.

Last month, Dabs spokesman Wahidullah Tawhidi expressed alarm at not only the financial losses incurred by the attacks, but also the significant toll on Afghans’ access to healthcare and education in the wake of Covid-19.

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As if the Taliban’s long history of sabotaging transmission towers and cutting power lines were not enough to expose Afghanistan’s failure to secure its electricity infrastructure, Covid-19 has shed new light on these vulnerabilities. Solutions like the Ministry of Public Health’s development of a Covid-19 information app and the Ministry of Education’s provision of online educational resources are proving largely ineffective for a population stuck in the dark.

Hospitals, prisons, and medical centres that struggle in non-Covid times are now stretched thin by the dual threat of Covid-19 and Taliban violence in response to the Afghan government’s inability to meet demands.

Part of the problem of ensuring electricity access lies in the country’s reliance on long-distance transmission systems. The history of local, regional and international development of Afghanistan’s electricity infrastructure has been disproportionately focused on long-distance and cross-border projects prone to theft, sabotage, and high rates of electricity loss due to the difficulties of repairing ageing infrastructure in territory controlled by the Taliban and other armed groups.

Distributed energy resources have the potential to improve energy security and resilience in the wake of attacks on long-distance transmission networks and crises like Covid-19 that dramatically shift patterns of electricity demand.

Certain forms of distributed energy – like diesel generators – are already in use as a back-up power supply for hospitals, schools and households throughout Afghanistan and much of the developing world.

Students at their graduation ceremony in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 01 July 2019 Muhammad Sadiq / EPA
Students at their graduation ceremony in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 01 July 2019 Muhammad Sadiq / EPA

Despite the myriad threats that energy companies face developing projects in Afghanistan, one local company has revolutionised the commercialisation and deployment of distributed energy systems.

Bayat Power, a Kabul-based oil and gas company, built a modular gas-fired power plant – the country’s first gas power plant in 40 years – and brought it online in the country’s gas-rich northern region in November of last year. Kamal Gawri, chief financial officer of Bayat Power, noted at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Forum this January that power projects in Afghanistan often fail because they are too large, complex and slow to generate revenue. Bayat avoided the fate of other power projects by keeping the project small and pitching the government a five-year rather than a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA).

Bayat set an example for capitalising on Afghanistan’s variable natural resources. While Jowzjan province proved to be an ideal location for a gas plant, the country’s rich topography presents a high rate of exploitable renewable capacity: about 23,000 megawatts (MW) of hydroelectric in northeastern Afghanistan; 220,000MW of solar in the southern provinces; and 66,700MW of wind in the southwest near the Iranian border. While the country’s costs per kilowatt hour (kWh) are currently above the global average for these technologies, they are expected to drop as new renewable energy projects are implemented.

Families sit by the graves of relatives killed in a US drone strike on September 19, 2019, in Javari village in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province. Photos by Stefanie Glinski for The National
Families sit by the graves of relatives killed in a US drone strike on September 19, 2019, in Javari village in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province. Photos by Stefanie Glinski for The National
Rahat Gul, 45, sits before the grave of his son Khyber with Lal Agha, Khyber's 8-year-old son.
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The ID documents of the seven people from Javari village who were killed in the US drone strike.
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Lal Agha sits by the grave of his father Khyber, 25, who was working as a pine nut collector when he was killed in a US drone strike.
Lal Agha sits by the grave of his father Khyber, 25, who was working as a pine nut collector when he was killed in a US drone strike.
The families of Javari village have decorated the graves of the relatives with bright garlands.
The families of Javari village have decorated the graves of the relatives with bright garlands.
Rahat Gul sits with his grandchildren and neighbours as they look at the ID documents of those killed.
Rahat Gul sits with his grandchildren and neighbours as they look at the ID documents of those killed.
Erfan Kamal, 18, lies in a hospital bed in Jalalabad, capital of Nangarhar province, with a fractured skull and burns on his arms and feet from the drone strike. His father, Mohammed Hassan, 40, sits by his side.
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"How can we receive justice?" asks Mohammed Hassan, whose son needs treatment his family cannot afford for injures suffered in the US drone strike.
"How can we receive justice?" asks Mohammed Hassan, whose son needs treatment his family cannot afford for injures suffered in the US drone strike.

The Covid-19 pandemic presents an opportunity – if not a critical need – to shift the priorities in building and reforming Afghanistan’s electricity sector. Local, regional and international projects to develop the sector should take note of existing frameworks – such as the rural renewables initiative co-managed by the Ministry of Energy and Water’s Renewable Energy Department and Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation, and the National Solidarity Program’s surprisingly successful rural electrification program – to build out the country’s network of distributed energy resources.

Such efforts are not a cure-all for Afghanistan’s severe electricity woes but could at least marginally improve the ability of Afghan households, hospitals and schools to weather crises ranging from global pandemics to localised violence and extreme weather events.

Emily Burlinghaus is the assistant director of the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Centre in Washington, DC

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More than this many Palestinian refugees are registered with UNRWA in Lebanon, with about 45 per cent of them living in the country’s 12 refugee camps

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There are just under 1 million Syrian refugees registered with the UN, although the government puts the figure upwards of 1.5m

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The percentage of stateless people in Lebanon, who are not of Palestinian origin, born to a Lebanese mother, according to a 2012-2013 study by human rights organisation Frontiers Ruwad Association

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1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere

2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation and foster innovation

10. Reduce inequality  within and among countries

11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its effects

14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalise the global partnership for sustainable development

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Name: Brendalle Belaza

From: Crossing Rubber, Philippines

Arrived in the UAE: 2007

Favourite place in Abu Dhabi: NYUAD campus

Favourite photography style: Street photography

Favourite book: Harry Potter

Blackpink World Tour [Born Pink] In Cinemas

Starring: Rose, Jisoo, Jennie, Lisa

Directors: Min Geun, Oh Yoon-Dong

Rating: 3/5

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