News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

7 May 2009 - Floods caused by heavy rainfall have killed 41 people and inflicted considerable damage to infrastructure and property in the three north eastern provinces of Baghlan, Takhar and Badakhshan. More than 750 houses, 10 bridges, 117 water dams, 3,000 metres of protection walls and some 1…

7 May 2009 - This week, the presidents of the United States, Afghanistan and Pakistan with the engagement of their top advisors, hold the second Trilateral Consultations in Washington to address issues of regional security and economic development. Dari - Pashto It happens five weeks after a…

KABUL - The United Nations Envoy for Afghanistan, Kai Eide, today opened the 19th UN office in Tirin Kot, the provincial capital of Uruzgan. The office was opened in the presence of the Foreign Minister of the Netherlands, Maxime Verhagen, the Governor of Uruzgan, Assadullah Hamdam and UN Under…

9 May 2009 - The United Nations opened its 20th office in the northern Sar-i-Pul province of Afghanistan on Saturday, continuing the world body's drive to promote development across the strife-torn nation. “I consider this opening to be especially important, because it reflects one of our most…

KABUL - Fakhria is a 12 year-old schoolgirl from the suburbs of Kabul. Like many Afghan children, for many years she had to bring water from her home to school, or get unsafe water from one of the public pumps, shared by the 10,600 students of the Bibi Sara High School. “Water has a basic role in…

KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) today urged that the planning and implementation of military operations in Afghanistan must take into account the safety of the civilian population. A joint United States and Government of Afghanistan investigation is currently…

12 May 2009 - The UN’s top envoy in Afghanistan is encouraging increased support for the country from its neighbours at a major regional conference. The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan Kai Eide, is attending the third Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on…

13 May 2009 - Voters in Afghanistan have the chance to raise complaints against candidates for the forthcoming presidential and provincial council elections. The Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) has announced that it is ready to receive challenges against candidates who have nominated…

13 May 2009 - The United Nations World Food Programme is providing emergency food assistance to thousands of people in five provinces of Afghanistan. The move comes in the wake of floods which have claimed scores of lives and caused widespread damage to infrastructure and farmland. WFP has so far…

14 May 2009 - In May 1507 during a punitive raid into the plains south of Ghazni, the future Mughal Emperor Babur, describes how he and his horsemen took a day off from slaughtering rebellious Afghan tribesmen, to have a day’s hunting on the Dasht-e-Katawaz. “Next day, when we had ridden from that…

KABUL - For more than forty years, Enayatullah Siddiqi has monitored the ballet of the planes from behind the windows of the control tower at Kabul airport. For him, the history of his country is written on the milestones of civil aviation. “In the 1960’s we saw a great development of civil aviation…

KABUL - Demining in the south and east of Afghanistan is taking on a new shape this year as different communities take on the task of demining their own districts. In October 2008 a community based demining project, which will last until May 2010, started in Kunar. The total area that needs to be…