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23 April 2009 - Dost Mohammad Khan left from Bamyan seven years ago. Since then he has been living with his family of nine on Koh-e Shir Darwaza [lion gate mountain]. He finds life in Kabul harsher than Bamyan. “I did not…
21 April 2009 - People living with HIV and Aids can now receive treatment in the first anti-retroviral therapy centre in Afghanistan. The Minister of Public Health, Dr Sayed Mohammad Amin Fatimi opened the centre on Tuesday…
21 April 2009 - One thousand Afghan returnees will be able to build their own houses as a result of action taken by the Government of Afghanistan and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) shelter project…
KABUL - The Education for All, Global Action Week, is launched today in Afghanistan. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) are calling on…
KABUL - The United Nations has called for serious action to improve literacy rates in Afghanistan, one of the most illiterate countries in the world. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation…
KABUL - Afghanistan's Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board (JCMB) met today, Sunday, for its first session in 2009 and agreed to place development of the country's long-neglected agriculture sector among new top priorities…
KABUL - Two Afghan girls have won gold medals at an international education competition. Meena Sanjar, 17 and Rowida Abidi also 17 from Kabul’s Afghan-Turk girls’ high school came top at an education competition held on 3 and…
15 April 2009 - Sabza Bibi, 24, mother of two children is admitted to the Malalai hospital in Kabul due to an obstetric fistula. She developed this condition almost two years ago when she was in labour pain for two long days…
KABUL - Nearly nine million Afghans will benefit from United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP) projects in 2009. WFP distributed over 21,000 tons of food to more than 1.5 million Afghans in all 34 provinces of the country…
12 April 2009 - A US$ two million project underway in the north-eastern province of Baghlan is helping poor Afghan farmers become self-sufficient. 6,600 fruit trees such as almond, apricot, peach and plum and four types of…