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KABUL - With the holy month of Ramadan starting shortly, I would like to take the opportunity to congratulate the people and Government of Afghanistan and wish them peace and happiness throughout the coming days.
KABUL - The United Nations refugee agency has estimated that more than 9,000 families, comprising some 65,000 individuals, have been displaced into the south-eastern Afghan province of Khost following an ongoing large-scale military operation against militants in the bordering
NEW YORK - The Security Council welcomes the holding of the second round of the Afghan presidential election on 14 June and reiterates the importance of these historic elections to Afghanistan’s transition and democratic development.
KABUL - At a meeting of the United Nations Security Council today, the world body’s top envoy in Afghanistan, Ján Kubiš, said that addressing the political impasse in the wake of the country’s recent Presidential run-off elections will be vital for its unity and stability and
KABUL - A senior United Nations official in Afghanistan said today that the world body stands ready, as the representative body of the international community, to assist in resolving the “current political impasse” that has arisen in the wake of last week’s Presidential run-off e
KABUL - In its assessment of last Saturday’s second round run-off in Afghanistan’s Presidential elections, an Afghan election observer group today said that the election process was “good overall” although cases of irregularities and violations were reported at different polli
KABUL - As Afghans voted in the second round run-off of their country’s Presidential elections today, a senior official with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) – on a visit to a polling centre in the capital, Kabul – said that the democratic exercise “de
KABUL - Encouraging Afghans to take part in the upcoming elections, calling on the Afghan security forces to secure the polls, asking the country’s two election management bodies to fully implement recommendations to improve the voting process and urging responsible actions fr
KABUL - The Afghan body responsible for organizing Saturday’s second round run-off in the country’s Presidential elections has said that more than 6,300 polling centres will open on the day – an increase of about 150 centres compared to the first round of the elections held in
KABUL - In a United Nations-backed report released today in the Afghan capital of Kabul, a group of Afghan civil society organizations called for a number of measures to be taken – including tackling widespread corruption, disarming and disempowering local militias and resolvi