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KABUL - Dressed in blue and white t-shirts with the UN Peace Day logo, cricket players from eight cricket teams in Kandahar went face-to-face to compete in a five-day T-20 cricket tournament supported by the United Nations…

UNICEF in Afghanistan is delighted to announce the country’s first National Goodwill Ambassador, famed cricketer Raees Ahmadzai. A former captain of the successful 2009 and 2010 Afghan National Cricket teams, Mr. Ahmadzai’s…

NEWYORK - Excellencies, Distinguished Messengers of Peace and Goodwill Ambassadors and dear young students for holding the flags of the United Nations, Ladies and Gentlemen, Good morning and welcome to you all, to this very…

LAGHMAN - To mark the upcoming International Peace Day, young women and men from eastern Laghman province today kicked goals and spiked balls in sports tournament organized by the Sub-Directorate of Youth with the assistance…

15 September 2011 - The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Guinea-Bissau encourages Bissau-Guineans to engage in the peacebuilding process, contributing to the consolidation of stability…

DAI KUNDI - The Dai Kundi Peace Day Run and Celebration 2011 kicked off this morning in the capital city of Nili with nearly a hundred children – 20 of them girls – participating in the races. Dai Kundi Governor Qurban Ali…

KANDAHAR - Peace is a national and public process that requires all people to work for it and not just the Government, Afghan High Peace Council Chairman and former Afghan president Burhanduddin Rabbani told hundreds of…

NANGARHAR - About 300 boys and girls today participated in Peace Poetry, an event organized by Nangarhar's Youth Sub Directorate in collaboration with the Youth Council and Youth Federation, to celebrate International Day of…

12 Sep 2011 - Guinea-Bissau Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General Joseph Mutaboba today inaugurated the country's first model police station, located in the "Bairro Militar…

KABUL - Leading attorneys from northern provinces today gathered in the capital of Afghanistan for a three-day training session organized by the University of Kabul and the United Nations to more effectively implement the law…