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KABUL - On Election Day UNAMA will have ten photographers deployed across the country led by world renowned photo-journalist Tim Page. Follow the day in pictures online.
KABUL - Election officials in eastern Afghanistan are working relentlessly in the final hours of preparations before polling opens at 7 am tomorrow.
KABUL - With the campaigning period over and Election Day just hours away, the fates of the 41 presidential contenders are now in the hands of the nearly 17 million Afghan voters.
19 August 2009 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged all eligible Afghan men and women to cast their ballots in tomorrow’s presidential and provincial elections, saying their votes will play a crucial role in helping the country on the path towards greater stability and democracy.
19 August 2009 - “Can you help me choose a good person as president?” asks a woman voter in a blue burqa to the ballot paper issuer at a mock polling station.
BALKH - Election fever is sweeping the north of the country from Balkh to Jawzjan, Faryab and Sar-i-Pul.
This election will be decisive for the future of Afghanistan, everybody knows it.
But the main question remains: Who’s the next president?
KABUL - From 26-28 July the Ministry of Public Health, with support of UNICEF, WHO and partners from the civil society are organizing the 4th National Immunization Days.
18 August 2009 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced his deep distress at the news that two United Nations staff members were among those killed in today’s suicide bombing in Kabul, which reportedly killed at least seven people, just two days ahead of Afghanistan’s presidential and provincia
NEW YORK - 18 August 2009 - Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General on the deaths of UNAMA staff members in Kabul, Afghanistan