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KABUL - Fighting the illegal excavation, removal and smuggling of Afghan artifacts is a big challenge for the Afghan Ministry of Culture. UNESCO's director, Shigeru Aoyagi talks exclusively to UNAMA’s Jamil Danish. .

1 July 2009 - The beautiful district of Jabulsaraj, located at the foot of the Hindu Kush mountains was today announced as a peace district. A total of 30 light weapons, belonging to six illegal armed groups were handed over…

30 June 2009 - The current situation in Afghanistan - marked by the most intense fighting in years, and upcoming presidential polls - is extremely complex, but if managed well could also become a turning point in ending the…

30 June 2009 - The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) handed over a two-storey building to the Afghan Ministry of Justice in Jalalabad today. The 20-room building constructed in the Rokhan Mina neighbourhood of…

30 June 2009 - Election fever is sweeping the north of Afghanistan as posters of candidates start to line the streets. They’ve started to bloom around the blue mosque of Mazar-i-Sharif, on the walls of Sar-i-Pul city and…

KABUL - Election fever is sweeping the north of Afghanistan as posters of candidates start to line the streets. They’ve started to bloom around the blue mosque of Mazar-i-Sharif, on the walls of Sar-i-Pul city and along the…

KABUL - The elections support project of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP/ELECT) is coordinating international support for this year’s Afghanistan elections on 20 August. Margie Cook is the Chief Electoral…

KABUL - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Kai Eide, this week in a meeting of the G8 on Afghanistan in Trieste, Italy, stressed the need for investment in large infrastructure projects in Afghanistan. Dari…

28 June 2009 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Kai Eide, this week in a meeting of the G8 on Afghanistan in Trieste, Italy, stressed the need for investment in large infrastructure projects in Afghanistan…

KABUL - Meeting in Trieste on 26 June 2009, the Afghanistan-Pakistan International Support Group recognized the fundamental role that the Afghan elections play in the continued strengthening of democracy in Afghanistan. The…

KABUL - Meeting in Trieste on 26 June 2009, the Afghanistan-Pakistan International Support Group recognized the fundamental role that the Afghan elections play in the continued strengthening of democracy in Afghanistan. Dari…

26 June 2009 - Drug trafficking, organized crime and terrorism are among the “interconnected” security challenges Afghanistan faces, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, calling on the international community to continue…