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14 October 2010 - The locals and their children were all smiles on Tuesday as senior United Nations officials reached a small village in eastern Afghanistan called Nala Bidak, an arid desert until a few years back.
13 October 2010 - The Security Council today extended the mission of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan for another year, calling on Governments to increase its current strength of 120,000 troops to counter growing terrorism by the Taliban and Al-Qaida.
13 October 2010 - Twenty-three trained midwives graduated on Monday from the Badakshan Community Midwifery Education School, at a ceremony that was attended by Government health officials and donor agencies’ representatives.
13 October 2010 - About 130 cricket-frenzied girls in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province gathered on Monday in Jalalabad to play a UN-funded cricket match, something unthinkable for girls until recent years in this part of the country.
11 Oct 2010 - United Nations health agency World Health Organization (WHO) pledged to continue working with the Government so as to reach remote populations with increased health services in the under-resourced province of Bamyan in central Afghanistan.
10 October 2010 - On the occasion of World Mental Health Day, Afghan government officials, the World Health Organization and the European Commission reinforced the need to take action and make progress against mental, neurological and substance use disorders amongst Afghans.