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KABUL - Afghanistan's road system, damaged by decades of war and a serious impediment to economic growth, faces reconstruction and rehabilitation.
KABUL - The potential export value of Afghanistan’s opium has dropped 18 per cent this year, the United Nations anti-drug body reported today, but it cautioned that further progress hinges on rooting out corruption in the South Asian nation.
KABUL - Eight years after the end of Taliban rule, women in Afghanistan still continue to face injustice and are often punished for "moral crimes."
GENEVA - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has made its first visit to Afghan prisoners held by the Taliban. The visit took place last month in the north-western province of Badghis. Patrick Maigua reports from Geneva.
KABUL - A new vaccine against polio will be used for the first time, today, in Afghanistan, as a campaign to immunize some 3 million children gets underway. The bivalent oral vaccine, known as bOPV, can protect children against the two remaining types of polio.
KABUL - Transcript of press conference in Kabul by Ewen MacLeod, Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Afghanistan.
UNHCR: Good morning, everybody. Thank you very much for coming.