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KABUL - Today, an international delegation spearheaded by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) completed a critical three-day mission assessing the situation of drug-dependence amongst Afghan school-age…

KABUL - Afghanistan’s Consultative Peace Jirga opened this morning in the capital Kabul, with 1,600 participants from across the country taking part in the three-day event aimed at developing a common vision about the way…

NEW YORK - The United Nations refugee agency is seeking US$ 18 million to meet an anticipated shortfall in funding for its operation in Iran, which is hosting more than one million Afghans who fled their homeland. To date…

KABUL - UNOPS and the Governments of Afghanistan and Australia, through the Australian Government Aid Programme, this month agreed to extend their joint efforts for road construction in Uruzgan, one of the most volatile…

KABUL - Two months after the UN Refugee Agency resumed its 2010 voluntary repatriation programme in Pakistan and five months since return started from Iran, 50,000 Afghan refugees have returned home with UNHCR’s assistance…

KABUL - Two months after the UN Refugee Agency resumed its 2010 voluntary repatriation programme in Pakistan and five months since return started from Iran, 50,000 Afghan refugees have returned home with UNHCR’s assistance…

KABUL - To promote the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which reached 20 years of age on 20 November 2009, UNICEF Afghanistan is launching a 30-minute radio series. The ‘Child’s Home Radio Magazine’, will be…

21 May 2010 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Guinea-Bissau, Joseph Mutaboba, today considered the forthcoming deployment of seven Guinea-Bissau police officers to the United Nations Stabilization…

KANDAHAR - The United Nations is committed to having an active presence in the southern part of Afghanistan, despite the insecurity in the region, the top United Nations envoy to the country pledged today. “The UN has been…

KABUL - On International Museum Day that is celebrated world-wide today, UNAMA brings you photographs of artefacts that were looted from Afghanistan, subsequently recovered, and now on display at the Kabul Museum.