UNAMA News

9 September 2009 - The death of an Afghan journalist who was killed during a rescue operation to free him and New York Times journalist Stephen Farrell from Taliban captivity highlights the dangers faced by media…

9 September 2009 - Until a few years ago, a handful of people had total influence over the way most women in the eastern Afghan hub of Jalalabad should live. One of the many things women were deprived of was radio. Many were…

24 August 2009 - The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General, Kai Eide, urged all candidates, their supporters, and voters to be patient, so that the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) can carry out…

KABUL - Three United Nations agencies in Afghanistan today urged the government and development partners to take “serious action” towards improving access to “quality and relevant” literacy programmes in the country. Speaking…

6 September 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.

6 September 2009 - The United Nations refugee agency has started providing shelter to hundreds of Afghans who have recently returned from Iran to their homeland, more than two decades after they fled during the Soviet Union’s…

4 September 2009 – The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) is sending a team to the north of the country where an overnight air strike by NATO forces against stolen trucks has reportedly led to dozens of…

3 September 2009 - Afghan Government authorities and international partners expressed their satisfaction at the drastic decrease in opium production in Afghanistan during a press conference held at the Government Information…

3 September 2009 - Afghanistan will top the United Nations Security Council agenda later this month when the fifteen member Council is expected to debate the Secretary-General’s quarterly report on the situation in…

Kunduz, 2 September 2009 - Chess players from the northern province of Kunduz put their playing skills to test in the cause of peace with a competition organised by the Kunduz Youth Information and Communication Centre (YICC)…

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…