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KABUL - Tactics of the Taliban and other Anti-Government Elements (AGEs) are behind a 31 per cent increase in conflict-related Afghan civilian casualties in the first six months of 2010 compared with the same period in 2009…

NEW YORK - The United Nations health agency said today that it has begun sending medical supplies to aid thousands of people affected by recent flooding across Afghanistan, where the major health concerns right now are water…

4 August 2010 - Guinea-Bissau authorities intention to consider a stabilization mission to the country is in line the last Security Council presidential statement that invited the Bissau-Guinean Government and the…

KABUL - The Afghanistan Poppy Eradication Verification Final Report released by the Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MCN) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) shows that a total of 2,316 hectares of…

KABUL - Relief aid provided by various United Nations agencies and Afghan partners has started to reach the nearly 4,000 families affected by last week’s flooding in eastern Afghanistan. “Hopefully, we will not have a big gap…

22 July 2010 - The Security Council today voiced concern at the current security situation and threats to constitutional order in Guinea-Bissau, and stressed the need for the Government and people of the West African nation…

22 July 2010 - The United Nations and Canada today inaugurated in Bissau a police training center aimed at reinforcing Guinea-Bissau law enforcement institutions to tackle issues of administration of justice and combat…

KABUL - Dozens of Afghan women from the provinces of Kandahar in the south to Takhar in the north are calling on Afghan leaders to give more visibility to women’s rights at the Kabul Conference on Tuesday, cautioning that…

8 July 2010 - The progress made by Guinea-Bissau following last year's political crisis could be jeopardized unless major reforms in the areas of defence and security are carried out, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a…

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan Sraffan de Mistura recently spoke with the United Nations Information Center (UNIC) here about the United Nations mission in Afghanistan…