News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

Kabul, 1 September 2009 - Afghan celebrities, civil society representatives, and UN staff today joined hands at simultaneous events in Kabul, Mazar, Kunduz and Jalalabad to launch the 2009 ‘What Are You Doing for Peace in Afghanistan?’ campaign. The campaign, which runs from now till International…

Jalalabad, 1 September 2009 - United Nations agencies, civil society organisations, media and government bodies in Jalalabad vowed today to carry out various activities to promote peace in the restive eastern Afghanistan. Speaking at a meeting called by the eastern regional office of the United…

KABUL - In its 2009 Afghan Opium Survey (summary findings) released in Kabul today, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reports that “the bottom is starting to fall out of the Afghan opium market”. دری - پشتو Opium cultivation is down by 22%, production by 10%, and prices are at a…

KABUL - Distribution of relief materials for thousands of people in Nangarhar province, who were rendered homeless by a flash flood caused by a pre-dawn rain and storms on Monday, continued today. The Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) and Rural Rehabilitation and Development (RRD) distributed the…

KABUL - I am appalled to have learned of today’s suicide bomb attack at Metherlam Mosque in Laghman province which resulted in the death of Afghanistan’s deputy chief of intelligence along with several other Government officials and injuries to many other civilians. دری و پشتو It is indefensible…

Kunduz, 2 September 2009 - Chess players from the northern province of Kunduz put their playing skills to test in the cause of peace with a competition organised by the Kunduz Youth Information and Communication Centre (YICC) with support from the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and the United…

3 September 2009 - Afghanistan will top the United Nations Security Council agenda later this month when the fifteen member Council is expected to debate the Secretary-General’s quarterly report on the situation in Afghanistan. The Council is also expected to receive a briefing by the Secretary…

3 September 2009 - Afghan Government authorities and international partners expressed their satisfaction at the drastic decrease in opium production in Afghanistan during a press conference held at the Government Information and Media Centre in Kabul yesterday. Opium cultivation is down by 22 per…

Kabul, 4 September 2009 - I am very concerned by the reports we have seen this morning of casualties among civilians from an air strike against stolen trucks in Aliabad district of Kunduz province. As an immediate priority, everything possible must be done to ensure that people wounded by this…

4 September 2009 – The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) is sending a team to the north of the country where an overnight air strike by NATO forces against stolen trucks has reportedly led to dozens of civilian deaths. Peter Galbraith, the Deputy UN Special Representative in…

6 September 2009 - The United Nations refugee agency has started providing shelter to hundreds of Afghans who have recently returned from Iran to their homeland, more than two decades after they fled during the Soviet Union’s occupation of the country in the 1980s. The UN High Commissioner for…

6 September 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.