News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

29 March 2010 - Whether you sit down and have a cup of tea with Omara Khan Massoudi, the Director of the National Museum, or Nancy Hatch Dupree, Afghanistan’s grandmother, every one of the country’s cultural experts has an informed opinion about how the international community can help preserve…

KABUL - Transcript of press conference in Kabul with Dr Haider Reza, Programme Director of the Mine Action Coordination Centre of Afghanistan (MACCA). MACCA (DR HAIDER REZA): Ladies and gentlemen, once more it is a pleasure to be among you. This week we will celebrate International Mine Action Day…

29 March 2010 - The United Nations-supported mine action centre in Afghanistan destroyed nearly 112,000 different types of explosives in the first two months of this year and could do much more with additional funding, one of its top officials said today ahead of next week’s International Mine…

KABUL - UNAMA held a press conference in Kabul today with Norah Niland, Representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Afghanistan, to launch a report on the Human Rights Dimension of Poverty in Afghanistan. UNAMA Radio: Poverty report: English - Dari Today, on behalf of the High…

KABUL - The United Nations human rights office is urging that Afghanistan’s poor be at the centre of decision-making processes that affect their lives, after a new report found that rights abuses are exacerbating poverty in the country. “Poverty actually kills more Afghans than those who die as a…

30 March 2010 - The top United Nations official in Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, flew today to the volatile southeastern provinces of Paktya and Khost to meet with UN staff and local communities and authorities in one of the most challenging regions of the country. In his first trip outside Kabul…

KABUL - Today UNODC releases its first-ever Afghanistan Cannabis Survey showing that the world’s biggest producer of opium is also a major producer of cannabis. Full report Way down from the earlier figure of 70,000 hectares circulating, the area of cannabis cultivation in Afghanistan is estimated…

31 March 2010 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, has expressed his condolences over and condemned an attack on the office of the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in Khost, Afghanistan on 27 March, which severely injured a long-time highly…

31 March 2010 - At the release of the first “Afghanistan Cannabis Survey” by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan Staffan de Mistura, pledged UN assistance to Afghanistan Government strategies to counteract…

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KABUL - The top United Nations official in Afghanistan has condemned an attack by gunmen against a German aid agency in the east of the country that killed a local engineer and severely injured an international aid worker. Said Anwar, an engineer from the nearby province of Wardak, died on 27 March…

1 April 2010 - The traditional annual “Narinj Gul” or Orange Blossom Festival has been marked in Jalalabad today. More than ten thousand people joined the event which has celebrated Afghan poetry and writing for more than 60 years. Local and Kabul officials, representatives from UNAMA, writers…