30 Nov 2013 - KABUL - I have learned with deep regret of the death of nine Afghan aid workers in two separate attacks in recent days.
On 26 November, three Afghans working for a village development project in southern Uruzgan Province were killed by a remote-controlled explosive device. On...
20 Nov 2013 - KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) welcomes the timely completion of the adjudication of complaints by the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC), and the announcement today of the final list of candidates for the country’s 2014...
13 Nov 2013 - KABUL - Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan rose 36 per cent in 2013, a record high, according to the 2013 Afghan opium survey released today in Kabul by the Ministry of Counter Narcotics and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Calling the news “sobering”,...
13 Nov 2013 - KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) welcomes the completion of the third phase of the country’s voter registration top-up exercise, with an additional three million Afghans now registered to take part in next year’s Presidential and Provincial...
28 Oct 2013 - KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) condemns yesterday’s attack in Andar district, in the south-eastern province of Ghazni, in which an improvised explosive device (IED) detonation killed 19 civilians travelling in a mini-bus.
Those killed...