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Floods and earthquakes destroy thousands of homes across Afghanistan

KABUL - While many farmers are happy with the spring rains this year which should result in good harvests, many Afghans have suffered heavily from floods caused by the recent heavy rainfall.

27 Apr 2009

Ministry of Public Health, WHO assure flu epidemic vigilance in Afghanistan

KABUL - It is an urgent global concern that cases of influenza infection with a new virus, currently being reported in some areas of Mexico, the United States and Canada.

27 Apr 2009

UN Envoy calls for new, strategic focus on Afghanistan’s education needs

KABUL - The UN’s top representative in Afghanistan called today for new and more strategic thinking about the country’s education needs.

22 Apr 2009

United Nations calls for action on Afghan literacy

KABUL - The United Nations has called for serious action to improve literacy rates in Afghanistan, one of the most illiterate countries in the world.

20 Apr 2009

Afghanistan’s agriculture sector emerges as new priority

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.

19 Apr 2009

Gold medals for Afghan school girls

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.

16 Apr 2009

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