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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…

Jalalabad, 1 September 2009 - United Nations agencies, civil society organisations, media and government bodies in Jalalabad vowed today to carry out various activities to promote peace in the restive eastern Afghanistan…

Kabul, 1 September 2009 - Afghan celebrities, civil society representatives, and UN staff today joined hands at simultaneous events in Kabul, Mazar, Kunduz and Jalalabad to launch the 2009 ‘What Are You Doing for Peace in…

1 September 2009 - Aid agencies and donors started to distribute immediate relief to those affected by flooding caused by pre-dawn rain and storms yesterday. Last night, following a quick assessment of the damage caused by…

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, 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…

29 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. Click here to…

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…

25 August 2009 - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has welcomed the decision by the United States Attorney-General to appoint a special prosecutor to look into whether Central Intelligence…

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…