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KABUL - Soaring opium prices may induce more farmers to grow opium, warned the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in its full 2010 Afghanistan Opium Survey released today. The high prices are based on…

KANDAHAR - Kandahar’s rise in cricket continues as the team beat out players from 21 other provinces to win the national championships in Nangarhar for a second year in a row. Each team played two-day matches against three…

KABUL - Taliban insurgents and other armed groups as well as criminal gangs in Afghanistan have been deliberately targeting demining NGOs, particularly in the volatile southern provinces, says the Afghanistan NGO Safety…

BAMYAN - The challenges and opportunities for young leaders in Afghanistan was among the main discussion topics at a political outreach workshop attended this week by 40 civil society representatives in the central region of…

NANGARHAR - An Afghan non-governmental organization has provided multimedia training to nearly 50 staff of state-owned media and provincial government, as part of an effort to strengthen journalism in the country and support…

KABUL - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a donation of $196.6 million from Japan, the largest-ever single contribution to the agency, which will use it to provide essential food and nutritional…

HERAT - A three-day photo exhibit depicting women’s role in politics, society and sport opened Thursday in the western province of Herat. “The exhibition depicts the ways of women’s lives in Afghanistan, which is peerless,”…

KABUL - The first pictorial guide to the flora of Afghanistan co-authored in English and Dari by a Kabul born scientist has been made available for free to thousands of Afghan students as the United Nations wrapped up its…

HERAT - Abdul Karim (not his real name) is a nine-year-old Afghan child. He waits under the street traffic light in downtown Herat for the cars to come and cleans their windscreens in the hope of gleaning some money. Abdul is…

KANDAHAR - Daman district, Kandahar - Saffron has been introduced in this southern district in recent months in a pilot project aimed at exploring economic options for farmers as alternatives to poppy crops. The world’s most…

BAMYAN - Today the UNAMA human rights team held a public meeting in the capital of the Central Highlands Region to share the results of its December 2010 report on violence against women, titled Harmful Traditional Practices…

In the face of increased successes by international forces and the national army in Afghanistan, the Taliban may attempt spectacular attacks in the coming weeks, the top United Nations envoy in the country warned today. “In…