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UN envoy calls on candidates to campaign with dignity and fairness
KABUL - “I appeal to candidates to campaign with dignity and fairness. It is the shared responsibility of all candidates to ensure that these elections strengthen Afghanistan’s democratic institutions and people’s confidence…
Crucial to ensure credible Afghan polls, stresses UN envoy
15 June 2009 - The top United Nations official in Afghanistan has stressed the need to ensure that the elections slated for August are credible and that their results are accepted by all, noting that the candidates can…
Election campaign begins
16 June 2009 - The official campaign period for Afghanistan’s presidential and provincial council elections starts today. Forty one presidential hopefuls and more than 3,000 candidates for provincial council seats are…
Most border movements for social, economic reasons: UN study
15 June 2009 - A new United Nations-commissioned study has found that cross-border movements between Afghanistan and Pakistan are more to do with socio-cultural links and economic factors than by conflict. The study marks a…
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Danish theatre group performs for peace
KABUL - The curtains open to applause, giving way to 10 musicians performing, ostensibly, at a wedding. The men and women, all European one judges by their accents, sport salt-and-pepper wigs, glasses with black rims and, for…
Electoral Complaints Commission reaches out to the provinces
16 June 2009 - More than one hundred and seventy complaints officers are moving out to the provinces for the forthcoming elections in Afghanistan. The Electoral Complaints Commission has completed a training programme for 176…
UN envoy visits Nangarhar
17 June 2009 - The top United Nations envoy in Afghanistan, Kai Eide is today visiting the eastern province of Nangarhar. He visited a village in Behsood district and heard about a vocational training programme for women…
Thousands of political posters on the streets of Kabul
17 June 2009 - Large billboards, posters and all kinds of publicity materials are starting to decorate the famous corners of the streets of Kabul as the elections race gets underway. The official campaign period for…
Quiet sound of dialogue needed for peace: UN envoy
18 June 2009 - The UN’s seniormost official in Afghanistan, Special Representative Kai Eide, has called for peace to be at the top of the country’s post-election agenda saying that the “quiet sound of dialogue”, not the…
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UNHCR: Decades assisting refugees in Afghanistan
KABUL - For decades Afghans made up the world’s largest refugee population with up to eight million living outside Afghanistan. Since 2002 more than 4.36 million have come back to Afghanistan with the assistance of the United…