Funded and installed by Unesco, the internet connection will enable AINA to open a newsroom where Afghan journalists can access web news and images from the rest of the world for the first time.
AINA Director, Eric Davin, said: "We expect the Internet to be a real booster for Afghanistan's pioneer publications, as well as for individual journalists, in opening their minds to international news and sites."
The connection has been made via satellite through the Galaxy system. The signal is uplinked from Kabul and retrieved at a European gateway for onwards passage to an internet service provider.
The AINA centre, which officially opened on 10 October 2002, will make the web available to both trainee journalists and those working online, in newspapers, radio and television.
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