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15 July 2009 - The Security Council today welcomed the Afghan-led preparations for next month’s presidential and provincial council elections, and stressed the importance of “free, fair, transparent, credible, secure and inclusive” polls.
KABUL - Afghanistan’s presidential and provincial council elections on 20 August are just one month away.
Forty one presidential candidates, including two women and more than 3,000 provincial council candidates are campaigning for people’s votes.
20 July 2009 - Afghanistan’s presidential and provincial council elections on 20 August are just one month away.
KABUL - For the first time ever two Afghan climbers have reached the summit of Afghanistan’s highest mountain.
The two climbers, Amruddin and Malang, reached the 7,492 metres summit of Noshaq in the Hindu Kush in the Wakhan, earlier today.
19 July 2009 - The past year has witnessed a rise in violence against women in Afghanistan and of its public acceptance, according to the UN women’s development fund, UNIFEM.
KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the Peace Dividend Trust today met with procurement officials from the international community and, again, urged them to buy locally-produced products to boost Afghanistan's growing private sector economy.