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22 August 2009 - The latest weekly programme produced in Dari and Pashto by UNAMA Radio is now online to listen to. The show - "Afghanistan Today" - is broadcast every Saturday morning on Radio Afghanistan. internalFile…

NEW YORK - The United Nations Security Council has welcomed the holding of Afghanistan’s “historic” presidential and provincial council elections, while condemning the actions of those who sought to disrupt the 20 August…

NEW YORK - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his top envoy to Afghanistan have congratulated the people of the fledgling democracy on today’s presidential and provincial council elections, and paid tribute to all those who…

20 August 2009 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his top envoy to Afghanistan have congratulated the people of the fledgling democracy on today’s presidential and provincial council elections, and paid tribute to all those…

KABUL - Throughout the day UNAMA staff across the country reported on the elections as millions of Afghans voted. Click below for a selection of photos and radio and TV reports.

KABUL - The top United Nations envoy to Afghanistan, Kai Eide has said that holding the elections was a big achievement for Afghans. The deteriorating security situation across the country had been considered the major…

20 August 2009 - 5:49 pm: The UN’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Kai Eide has just finished briefing the media on the end of Elections Day 2009. For more photos from the day click here. UN SRSG KAI EIDE: Welcome…

20 August 2009 - 5:38 pm: Early indications suggest an encouraging turnout in Nangarhar though some polling centres saw a low turnout – as low as about 170 in one of the polling centres at the Medical Faculty School in…

20 August 2009 - 5:21 pm: Political party agents and candidates in Bamyan carried out an active observation process today. “A total of 4,725 candidates and political party agents have been accredited to monitor the election…

20 August 2009 - 4:22 pm: Jamil Danish from UNAMA Radio has been on the streets of Kabul today. Listen to his interviews here. UNAMA Radio: - - - -

20 August 2009 - 4:04 pm: Early morning, voters were queuing up in front of polling centres, waiting to be allowed in to cast their votes. In most centres, the polling staff voted first, before opening the polling stations…

20 August 2009 - 3:06 pm: Women have been voting at two female polling centres in Jalalabad – the Bibi Zainab High School and the Women’s Affairs Department. View more than 100 photos from today