News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

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…

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…

KABUL - In an exclusive interview for UNAMA, the head of Afghanistan’s environmental agency calls for more trees to be planted in the country. In May 2005 President Hamid Karzai issued a special executive presidential order…

16 May 2009 - The district of Surkh-e-Parsa lies at the upper end of the Ghorband Valley, not far from where the road begins to climb the bare hills to the Shibar Pass. Three green valleys converge at the district centre of…

16 May 2009 - As UNAMA's latest Afghan Update Magazine on the environment is published, the work of the United Nations Environment Programme in Afghanistan is highlighted. The work of the United Nations Environment Programme…

BAMYAN - Five years ago, in the central province of Bamyan in Afghanistan, one woman walked into a police station to join up. At a time when women were scared of even walking in front of police stations, Nahida Reza, 26, took…

18 May 2009 - Afghanistan has joined other countries worldwide to take precautions against Influenza A (H1N1). So far no cases of the new influenza have been detected in Afghanistan, but in the meantime an emergency centre…

18 May 2009 - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has joined the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in calling for safe humanitarian access to reach 500 needy families in western Farah…

KABUL - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has assisted more than one million six hundred thousand people across the country with nearly 19,000 tons of food in the month of April alone. More than 500,000 Afghans…

KABUL - Travelling from Jalalabad to Torkham on the border with Pakistan, you pass the district of Mohmand Dara. In the past this district of the eastern province of Nangarhar was known for poppy cultivation and the number of…

21 May 2009 - Takhar province is one of the most populated provinces in the north east of Afghanistan with 16 districts and a long river border with Tajikistan. During the Soviet invasion and Taliban regime Takhar was one of…

KABUL - The UN’s Mission in Afghanistan is set to increase its number of offices across the country this year. With two recent office openings in the southern province of Uruzgan and the northern province of Sar-i-Pul, the…