KABUL - The United Nations will provide a grant of US$58 million to Afghanistan for an initiative aimed at improving food security by enhancing the skills, services and income opportunities of rural women and men. The…
KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) expresses its serious concern over the deaths of at least 11 civilians, including 10 children and one woman, and injuries to seven others, in an armed clash…
FARAH - Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, visited Farah province today to meet with the family members of the victims of the Taliban group attack on 3 April in the province that killed over 50 people and wounded nearly 100…
PAKTYA - In a one day workshop in Khost province attended by community elders, clerics, civil society members, political party agents, reporters and head of the sectorial working groups, participants pointed out post-2014…
GHAZNI - Local officials promised last year to construct Band-i-Sultan dam in Jaghatu district of Ghazni province but the construction is yet to start, according to residents of Ghazni. Hundreds of them visited the irrigation…
Abuja, 8 April 2013 – The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for West Africa, Said Djinnit attended the 9th Annual Development Partners Coordination Meeting of the Economic Community of West African States…
08 April 2013 – Marking the 19th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Burundi, Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, has warned against ethnic-based exclusion and highlighted the…
The Ugandan troops will continue to play their role The 2000 Ugandan soldiers handover to the Regional Task Force (RTF) of the African Union (AU) in charge of the "elimination" of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) will…
5 April 2013 - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Guinea-Bissau, José Ramos-Horta, granted an interview to two international media on Friday, 5 April at UNIOGBIS, in which he launched an appeal on the…
Council condemns attack on Afghan civilians in ‘strongest terms’ NEW YORK - The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack on 3 April in Farah province of Afghanistan, causing…
TRIPOLI, 4 April 2013 – The Ministry of Education, The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and international and local…
KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) strongly condemns an attack against a Government compound in the south-western province of Farah on 3 April that resulted in the deaths of at least 41…