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JALALABAD - It wasn’t just the Muslims of Jalalabad who celebrated the holy festival of Eid with pomp and jubilation in the last week of November 2009. In downtown Jalalabad, minority Hindu-Sikhs were also euphoric about the…

WINDSOR - One belief that the Western world often held about Asia and the East was that it was a land of enormous luxury and wealth. One Western poet from the 19th century, James Elroy Flecker, summed up this view by…

KABUL - As a part of the Mission’s campaign to raise awareness about Afghanistan’s rich past, Kabul Musuem Director Omara Khan Massoudi spoke to UNAMA on his desire to see the musuem rise from the ashes. Afghanistan has a…

HERAT - Experts cannot state with precision when the old city of Herat was built as it stands today. Herat’s history as a human settlement dates as far back as the Iron Age, and under Alexander the Great, during pre-Islamic…

KABUL - The history and archaeology of Afghanistan stretches back more than 40 millennia, from Palaeolithic sites where stone tools illustrate aspects of the lives of the first human settlements in Afghanistan, through to the…

NEW YORK - A new project by the World Health Organization (WHO) aims to help Tajikistan's health system cope with the effects of natural disasters as well as the conflict in neighbouring Afghanistan.

5 March 2010 - Following the upheaval experienced in 2009 when a series of political assassinations threatened security and stability in Guinea-Bissau, current conditions bode well for progress towards peace and prosperity in…

3 March 2010 - Security sector reform remains the most crucial element to ensuring stability in Guinea-Bissau, according to a new United Nations report released today, which calls on the international community to support the…

KABUL - The outgoing top United Nations envoy for Afghanistan today stressed the need to reverse the negative trends in the country within the year or they will inevitably become “irreversible.” Press conference transcript -…

KABUL - The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Kai Eide, has held his final press conference in Kabul. SRSG: Thank you very much and thank you also for coming to my last press…