06 Sep 2010 - KABUL - “The Power of Women’s Literacy” is this year’s International Literacy Day theme. Improving Afghanistan’s literacy is a key development goal for the country, which has only 26 per cent literacy among over 15-year-olds, and only 12 per cent among girls and women over 15...
05 Sep 2010 - KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) fully supports the reaffirmation today by Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) of its definitive decision that it will conduct the 18 September Wolesi Jirga elections based on the final list of...
31 Aug 2010 - KABUL - A group of experts from the World Health Organization spent last week on a surveillance mission across the country with the aim to gauge the effectiveness of Afghanistan's surveillance system that is used to detect polio virus circulation among the population.
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29 Aug 2010 - KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) condemns the killing of a fourth parliamentary election candidate, in Herat on Saturday, and of five men supporting the electoral campaign of a female candidate, also in Herat province. At this stage it is not...
26 Aug 2010 - GHAZNI - This month a new project undertaken by OMAR, an Afghan humanitarian mine action non-governmental organization (NGO), will begin clearing minefields from the centre of Ghazni. This will support the city’s preparations to be named Islamic Centre of Civilisation 2013 by...
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