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KABUL - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today expressed its deep distress over the killing of one of its staff members in a suicide bomb attack in the city of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. The WFP employee…

KABUL - Various United Nations agencies and their partners began assisting thousands of victims of the flash floods that ravaged five provinces of Afghanistan in April and May. Among the Agencies providing emergency food…

KABUL - The United Nations called on President Karzai to abolish the controversial family law applying to the country’s minority Shi’a community. “I want to take this opportunity again, the laws which were taken in…

KABUL - The United Nations celebrated International Women’s Day on 8 March in Afghanistan. Speaking at a function to mark the occasion, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General Kai Eide urged more women to be…

24 December 2009 - Download UNAMA's review of the week in stories and photos. UNAMA NEWS - UNAMA PHOTOS

KABUL - The United Nations and its partners launched the Humanitarian Action Plan (HAP) for Afghanistan in February and appealed for US$ 604 million to help meet the needs of Afghans made vulnerable by natural disasters, lack…

KABUL - In 2009, 6.8 million children were enrolled in schools of grade 1 to 12, among them, 2.5 million girls. Download the UNICEF Factsheet For UNICEF 2009 was an extension of its preceding Country Programme 2006-2008. In…

KABUL - The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Kai Eide, began the year urging strong support for agriculture and big infrastructure in Afghanistan. At a media conference in Kabul…

22 December 2009 - It has been eight years since the inauguration of the Afghan Interim Authority (AIA) created by a group of Afghan leaders who – under the auspices of the United Nations – drew up plans in Bonn, Germany on…

KABUL - As the year draws to a close UNAMA reviews the year in Afghanistan with a series of articles looking back on the twelve months of 2009. Of the seven years that the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan…

22 December 2009 - The provincial government in Bamyan has launched a campaign to make the province 100 per cent literate. This campaign aims to eradicate illiteracy from Bamyan and declare it an illiteracy free province in…

21 December 2009 - The United Nations has warned that despite the enormous efforts underway to deliver food and aid this winter, the adverse security situation continues to complicate efforts to reach Afghanistan's most…