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KABUL - On 28 October 2009, attackers stormed the Bakhtar guest house in Kabul killing five United Nations staff as part of a plan to disrupt the presidential election runoff. We remember: Jossie Esto, UNDP electoral…

3 April, Kabul - Afghanistan experienced its third day of protests in the wake of the burning of the Koran two weeks ago by a US pastor in Florida. Sunday’s protests occurred in many provinces and cities across the country…

2 April 2011 - The Secretary-General spoke by telephone today with the Prime Minister of Nepal, H.E. Mr. Jhala Nath Khanal, and the Foreign Ministers of Norway, Sweden and Romania to express his deep condolences on the deaths…

2 April 2011 - The top UN envoy for Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, today returned to Kabul from the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, accompanying the bodies of seven colleagues killed in yesterday's attack on the UN's…

2 April 2011, Nairobi - The Secretary-General spoke by telephone today with H.E. Mr. Hamid Karzai, the President of Afghanistan. The Secretary-General told President Karzai he was saddened and shocked by the attack on the UN…

2 April 2011 - The Security Council and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon have strongly condemned today’s attack in Afghanistan in which a large crowd of demonstrators angry at the burning of a copy of the Koran by a United…

31 March 2011 - There were fewer Afghan asylum-seekers in 2010 and this could, in part, be due to tighter immigration controls in destination countries, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Afghan Ministry of…

30 March 2011- The world’s poorest countries are making progress but the gap between them and their wealthier counterparts is getting larger, according to a United Nations report released on Tuesday. Afghanistan is one of the…

29 March 2011 - Taliban “supreme leader” Mullah Mohammad Omar has issued a decree instructing insurgents not to attack schools and intimidate schoolchildren, according to the Afghan Ministry of Education (MoE). IRIN story “In…

30 March 2011 – More than 300 tribal elders and Afghan officials from Uruzgan met on Sunday with members of the High Peace Council to discuss peace and reconciliation efforts. “We should start the reconciliation efforts…

28 March 2011 – Staffan de Mistura took up his current assignment as the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in the country (UNAMA) in January 2010…