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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

20 August 2009 - 2 pm: Women have been eagerly lining up at polling centres in Bamyan to cast their vote in the presidential and provincial council elections. Agha Gul, 60, a house wife was among the women voters at the Sayed…

KABUL - UN envoy Kai Eide has visited one of the polling stations in Kabul at the Zarghona High School in the Qala-i-Fatullah area of the city. Pictures of the SRSG at the polling station During the visit, Mr Eide said: “I am…

20 August 2009 - 12:05 am: The UN’s top envoy in Afghanistan has just visited a polling station in Kabul. Kai Eide encouraged voters at the Zarghona High School. Check all the latest photos from today here

20 August 2009 - 12:02 pm: The people of Afghanistan have begun voting in a historic Presidential election, the first ever organised by Afghan authorities. With polls opening at 7 am across over 27,000 polling stations…

20 August 2009 - 11:03 am: Polling is underway in all four provinces of eastern Afghanistan peacefully. However, some polling centres couldn’t open in a few insecure districts of Nuristan province. Election observers – both…

20 August 2009 09:43 am - Afghans, young and old, male and female are queuing up outside polling stations across the country to cast their votes. Queues are building with reports in from Kabul, Herat and Dai Kundi out side…

KABUL - The top candidates in Thursday's presidential elections in Afghanistan have voted early, in an effort to motivate the electorate to show up at the polls. Incumbent president and front-runner Hamid Karzai was the first…

20 August 2009 - 09:30 am: People started to queue early this morning in Afghanistan's capital city, Kabul.

20 August 2009 - 08:59 am: UNAMA's media summary from the main Afghan TV news last night is now available. A media blackout on election campaign reporting was in place. Noorin TV Headlines Three Taliban attacked a bank in…