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KABUL - The top United Nations envoy to Afghanistan, Kai Eide has said that holding the elections was a big achievement for Afghans. The deteriorating security situation across the country had been considered the major…

20 August 2009 - 5:49 pm: The UN’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Kai Eide has just finished briefing the media on the end of Elections Day 2009. For more photos from the day click here. UN SRSG KAI EIDE: Welcome…

20 August 2009 - 5:38 pm: Early indications suggest an encouraging turnout in Nangarhar though some polling centres saw a low turnout – as low as about 170 in one of the polling centres at the Medical Faculty School in…

20 August 2009 - 5:21 pm: Political party agents and candidates in Bamyan carried out an active observation process today. “A total of 4,725 candidates and political party agents have been accredited to monitor the election…

20 August 2009 - 4:22 pm: Jamil Danish from UNAMA Radio has been on the streets of Kabul today. Listen to his interviews here. UNAMA Radio: - - - -

20 August 2009 - 4:04 pm: Early morning, voters were queuing up in front of polling centres, waiting to be allowed in to cast their votes. In most centres, the polling staff voted first, before opening the polling stations…

20 August 2009 - 3:06 pm: Women have been voting at two female polling centres in Jalalabad – the Bibi Zainab High School and the Women’s Affairs Department. View more than 100 photos from today

20 August 2009 - 2 pm: Women have been eagerly lining up at polling centres in Bamyan to cast their vote in the presidential and provincial council elections. Agha Gul, 60, a house wife was among the women voters at the Sayed…

KABUL - UN envoy Kai Eide has visited one of the polling stations in Kabul at the Zarghona High School in the Qala-i-Fatullah area of the city. Pictures of the SRSG at the polling station During the visit, Mr Eide said: “I am…

20 August 2009 - 12:05 am: The UN’s top envoy in Afghanistan has just visited a polling station in Kabul. Kai Eide encouraged voters at the Zarghona High School. Check all the latest photos from today here

20 August 2009 - 12:02 pm: The people of Afghanistan have begun voting in a historic Presidential election, the first ever organised by Afghan authorities. With polls opening at 7 am across over 27,000 polling stations…

20 August 2009 - 11:03 am: Polling is underway in all four provinces of eastern Afghanistan peacefully. However, some polling centres couldn’t open in a few insecure districts of Nuristan province. Election observers – both…