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KABUL - As Peace Day 21 September approaches UNAMA is featuring articles from UN agencies on the work the UN is doing for peace in Afghanistan. 3: UNODC The drug trade, corruption and unregulated borders are challenges to…

KABUL - As Peace Day 21 September approaches UNAMA is featuring articles from UN agencies on the work the UN is doing for peace in Afghanistan. 2: UNESCO Two and a half decades of conflict in Afghanistan have killed thousands…

KABUL - As Peace Day 21 September approaches UNAMA is featuring articles from UN agencies on the work the UN is doing for peace in Afghanistan. 1: The Food and Agriculture Organization. As long as people go hungry without any…

9 September 2009 - The death of an Afghan journalist who was killed during a rescue operation to free him and New York Times journalist Stephen Farrell from Taliban captivity highlights the dangers faced by media…

24 August 2009 - The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General, Kai Eide, urged all candidates, their supporters, and voters to be patient, so that the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) can carry out…

KABUL - Three United Nations agencies in Afghanistan today urged the government and development partners to take “serious action” towards improving access to “quality and relevant” literacy programmes in the country. Speaking…

KABUL - Distribution of relief materials for thousands of people in Nangarhar province, who were rendered homeless by a flash flood caused by a pre-dawn rain and storms on Monday, continued today. The Afghan Red Crescent…

KABUL - In its 2009 Afghan Opium Survey (summary findings) released in Kabul today, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reports that “the bottom is starting to fall out of the Afghan opium market”. دری - پشتو…

31 August 2009 - The top United Nations envoy for Afghanistan, Kai Eide today urged the country’s future government to take the lead in managing Afghanistan’s development through a new and “massive institution-building…

KABUL - The Security Council, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the senior United Nations official in Afghanistan have all condemned yesterday’s suicide bomb attack in the southern city of Kandahar, which has killed more than…

KABUL - Last night a suicide bomb attack in Kandahar city resulted in the death of at least forty-one civilians and injuries to over eighty others. دری و پشتو This attack took place in a residential area of the city. The…

KABUL - Journalists in the eastern city of Jalalabad have ruled out any possibility of large-scale post-election violence as preliminary results of last week’s presidential and provincial council elections are starting to…