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KABUL - The United Nations has called for serious action to improve literacy rates in Afghanistan, one of the most illiterate countries in the world.
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 4 April in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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.
14 April 2009 - Rukha, one of the seven districts of the famous province of Panjsher, just north of Kabul, was today declared a peace district. Rukha is the second district in the province that has disbanded illegally armed groups present there following Unaba a few months ago.
KABUL - Press conference by Nilab Mobarez, Press Officer, UNAMA.