Press releases

  • 18 Jan 2015 - KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) condemns yesterday’s killing of a family, as well as the driver of the taxi they were travelling in when the vehicle hit a pressure-plate improvised explosive device (PPIED) planted on a road in the eastern province of Nangarhar.
  • 17 Jan 2015 - KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) welcomes important progress made by civil society groups and the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) in developing and promoting local road maps for peace.
  • 12 Jan 2015 - KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) welcomes today’s  nomination of  Ministers and senior officials as an important milestone in implementing the agreement for a National Unity Government.
  • 01 Jan 2015 - KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) strongly condemns yesterday’s shelling that hit a wedding party in the southern province of Helmand killing as many as 25 civilians with a further 45 injured, according to preliminary information.
  • 14 Dec 2014 - KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) condemns the killing of 11 Afghan de-miners and the wounding of another six in an attack in Helmand province yesterday.  “The deliberate targeting and killing of de-miners removing explosive ordnance in order to make Afghanistan a safer place is particularly odious and totally unacceptable,” said the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and head of UNAMA, Nicholas Haysom.

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