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Security Council stresses need for free, fair and secure Afghan polls next month

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.

20 Jul 2009

One month until the vote

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 Jul 2009

Afghans reach Afghanistan’s highest peak for the first time

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 Jul 2009

Afghan woman escapes a life of slavery

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.

19 Jul 2009

UNAMA tells international community to buy local

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.

19 Jul 2009

ECC briefs campaign staffers of 41 presidential candidates

15 July 2009 - Bring us all your complaints about the electoral process directly – not through texts nor telephone calls.

15 Jul 2009

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