News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

NEW YORK - The United Nations Security Council has welcomed the holding of Afghanistan’s “historic” presidential and provincial council elections, while condemning the actions of those who sought to disrupt the 20 August polls. “The members of the Council reiterate the importance of these elections…

22 August 2009 - The latest weekly programme produced in Dari and Pashto by UNAMA Radio is now online to listen to. The show - "Afghanistan Today" - is broadcast every Saturday morning on Radio Afghanistan. internalFile:FileID=21224

24 August 2009 - Watch the reports on Afghanistan's elections, the latest Peace Day spots, and UNAMA's TV programmes. UNAMA TV: Watch here

24 August 2009 - The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General, Kai Eide, urged all candidates, their supporters, and voters to be patient, so that the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) can carry out its work and make decisions on the complaints that have been received. "I…

24 August 2009 - UNAMA has launched the Peace Day 2009 campaign poster - What are you doing for Peace? Download a 9 MB pdf file Download a 2.6 jpeg file

KABUL - Journalists in the eastern city of Jalalabad have ruled out any possibility of large-scale post-election violence as preliminary results of last week’s presidential and provincial council elections are starting to trickle in. “Some people will try to create problems,” said engineer Zalmai…

25 August 2009 - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has welcomed the decision by the United States Attorney-General to appoint a special prosecutor to look into whether Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers and contractors broke US laws while conducting…

KABUL - Last night a suicide bomb attack in Kandahar city resulted in the death of at least forty-one civilians and injuries to over eighty others. دری و پشتو This attack took place in a residential area of the city. The disregard for civilian lives shown by the perpetrators of this attack is…

KABUL - The Security Council, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the senior United Nations official in Afghanistan have all condemned yesterday’s suicide bomb attack in the southern city of Kandahar, which has killed more than 40 civilians and wounded at least 80 others. The truck bomb exploded on…

29 August 2009 - The latest weekly programme produced in Dari and Pashto by UNAMA Radio is now online to listen to. The show - "Afghanistan Today" - is broadcast every Saturday morning on Radio Afghanistan. Click here to listen.

Kabul, 31 August 2009 - The top United Nations envoy for Afghanistan, Kai Eide today urged the country’s future government to take the lead in managing Afghanistan’s development through a new and “massive institution-building programme”. At the same time he welcomed the launch of a project that will…

1 September 2009 - Aid agencies and donors started to distribute immediate relief to those affected by flooding caused by pre-dawn rain and storms yesterday. Last night, following a quick assessment of the damage caused by the flooding, the United Nations, a Jalalabad-based NGO - Youth in Action…