Mogadishu – SRSG Nicholas Kay condemns the terrorist attack in Mogadishu earlier today at the vicinity of the National Theatre. Reportedly, a suicide bomber and a vehicle loaded with explosives detonated at the site of a…
KABUL - Today H.E. Wais Ahmad Barmak – Minister of the Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) – together with senior government officials and members of the community, inaugurated the construction of a 2.6 kilometre…
KABUL - More than 180 female judges from across Afghanistan discussed problems they face while going about their duties, at a four-day annual conference of an umbrella body of female judges which concluded in the capital…
NURISTAN - Three doctors were released on Wednesday, a day after they were taken hostage by unidentified kidnappers in eastern Nuristan province, an official said. The doctors, who had come from Kabul, were abducted when they…
KUNAR - Provincial Council members and residents of eastern Kunar province have backed the proposed construction of a joint hydropower dam by Afghanistan and Pakistan on the Kunar River. On the eve of President Hamid Karzai’s…
NANGARHAR - A dispute between three sub-tribes has ended in Haska Mina district following mediation by the provincial Department of Tribal Affairs and elders. According to Wajiurahman, the Department head, a special jirga (‘a…
BALKH - Eleven-year-old Gulsum, a victim of a harmful tradition, ‘ Baad,’ finally had to take the risk of running away from her forced marriage in Sar-i-Pul province’ s capital city on Tuesday. According to provincial women…
Mogadishu Your Excellency, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Your Excellency, Minister of Human Development and Public Services, Dr. Maryan Qasim, Government officials, colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen I want to congratulate…
KANDAHAR - Senior government officials in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province highlighted the need to have more women in politics, good governance and decision-making, at a United Nations-organized event last week.…
Mogadishu. Your Excellency, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Your Excellency, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Honorable members of Parliament, Excellencies, diplomatic corps, Ministers, Ministers of State and…
BAMYAN - Two schools in the Yakawlang district of Afghanistan’s central Bamyan province have spent the past two weeks serving as the pilot sites for a United-Nations backed community policing project – locally known as Police…
02 September 2013 - The United Nations opened a field office in the northern town of São Domingos, Cacheu Region, on Sunday, 1 September 2013, with a view to enhancing its ability to provide assistance to its national…