KABUL - A media house in the east of Afghanistan has started broadcasting articles of an Afghan law that seeks to end violence against women, coinciding with the start of a 16-day global campaign against violence against…
27 November 2010 - A top United Nations official today stressed the need for a broad strategy and greater international cooperation to boost counter-narcotics and crime prevention efforts in Afghanistan. “To tackle the…
27 November 2010 - In a meeting today with Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan, Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), reaffirmed his Office’s commitment to support…
Mogadishu, 27 November 2010 - Somalia's Parliament endorsed the new Cabinet appointed by the new Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed. [State Ministers] [Ministers] [Deputy Ministers]
24 November 2010 (UN News Centre, NY) - The top United Nations envoy in Afghanistan today welcomed the certification of nearly all the final results for September’s legislative elections, adding that the formation of a new…
24 November 2010 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General to Guinea-Bissau, Joseph Mutaboba, today attends in Abuja an ECOWAS ministerial meeting focused on the Security Sector Reform (SSR) in Guinea-Bissau. The…
KABUL - The United Nations strongly welcomes today's certification of the final results for 34 out of the 35 constituencies in the 18 September Wolesi Jirga elections by Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC)…
On certification of final results by Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission 24 November 2010 - The United Nations strongly welcomes today's certification of the final results for 34 out of the 35 constituencies in the…
23 November 2010 - The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations office in Guinea-Bissau until 31 December 2011, while voicing deep concern at the continuing instability in the country. The UN…
23 November 2010 - Afghanistan needs a comprehensive Child Act fully in line with the provisions and principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In Afghanistan today one in five children die before reaching their…