SAR-I-PUL- Incidents of rape and self-immolation among women have been on the increase in northern Sar-i-Pul province, an official said on Thursday. So far 125 cases of violence against women have been registered in the…
KHOST - A 20-bed hospital for treatment of drug addicts was inaugurated in Khost province, local officials said on Saturday. Addressing an inauguration ceremony, the head of the Khost counter-narcotics department, Mirna Gul…
KABUL - Six ministries of the Government of Afghanistan were the focus of a workshop on implementation of Gender-responsive Budgeting (GRB) that concluded, here today. The workshop was jointly organized by the Ministry of…
Addis Ababa. Your Excellency, Dr. Tedros Adhanom, Foreign Minister of Ethiopia and Chair of the Council of Ministers of IGAD and dear colleagues Let me begin by giving a very very sincere welcome to the agreement and join my…
KABUL - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has granted Afghanistan membership to International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), which seeks to secure coordinated and effective action to prevent and…
NANGARHAR - Civil society representatives in eastern Nangarhar province urged Governor Gul Agha Sherzai to stem corruption and ensure good governance in government institutions last week. In a five-point resolution of the…
NANGARHAR - Community elders and leaders from Afghanistan’s eastern provinces, who gathered in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province last week, said that security situation was deteriorating and this might affect next…
Mogadishu/Addis Ababa – SRSG Nicholas Kay welcomed today the agreement signed in Addis Ababa by Minister of State Farah Sheikh Abdulkadir and Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Islaan “Madobe” on behalf of the Federal Government of Somalia…
Mogadishu / Addis Ababa – SRSG Nicholas Kay welcomed today the agreement signed in Addis Ababa by Minister of State Farah Sheikh Abdulkadir and Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Islaan “Madobe” on behalf of the Federal Government of…
28 August 2013 – The United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (BINUCA) expresses its deep concern regarding the serious events that occurred last week in Bangui and in the rest of the…
The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's press conference by Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria in Geneva. Joint Special Representative of the United…