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NEW YORK - The Secretary-General has received the final report of the Board of Inquiry (BOI) into the 28 October 2009 terrorist attack on the Bakhtar guest house in Kabul where 34 UN staff were residing. The four-member BOI…

KABUL - The importance of funding in Education is paramount to the attainment of the EFA goals in Afghanistan. This genuine need was echoed in today’s ceremony which focused on celebrating the Education for All, Global Action…

KABUL - It is vital to immunize more Afghans against vaccine-preventable diseases and protect them from malaria, government and United Nations officials said 24 April during a Kabul ceremony launching two major health events…

KABUL - The upcoming parliamentary elections in Afghanistan must be an improvement over last year’s presidential polls, the top United Nations envoy there told the new head of the country’s national electoral body, urging…

KABUL - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, in a meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai today, agreed to recommend the commencement of technical and logistical…

KABUL - There are a few types of workers who on the one hand, save people's lives, but on the other sometimes put their own lives in danger as well. Deminers are among them. On the early morning of 11 April, a group of…

KABUL - The top United Nations envoy in Afghanistan today voiced his concern over a “disturbing trend” of civilian casualties caused by recent international military operations in the country, urging greater efforts to…

NEW YORK - World Health Day 2010 focused on urbanization and health with the campaign "1000 cities - 1000 lives" calling on cities worldwide to open up streets for health activities.

KABUL - Deminers commemorate the International Day for Mine Awareness in Afghanistan where more than 15,000 minefields and battlefields have been cleared in the last two decades.

KABUL - Across Afghanistan the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action has been marked today with a number of events and activities. In Kabul five young artists painted their vision of the dangers…

NEW YORK - A UN survey says that Afghanistan, the world's biggest producer of opium, is now also the global leader when it comes to the production of hashish.

KABUL - The top United Nations official in Afghanistan has condemned an attack by gunmen against a German aid agency in the east of the country that killed a local engineer and severely injured an international aid worker…