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Fifty thousand refugees return this year
KABUL - Two months after the UN Refugee Agency resumed its 2010 voluntary repatriation programme in Pakistan and five months since return started from Iran, 50,000 Afghan refugees have returned home with UNHCR’s assistance, with 48,000 from Pakistan and some 2,000 from Iran recorded, marking a…
UN Special Representative visits Iran
23 May 2010 - The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, today concluded a two-day official visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran where he met with officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Interior, Office of the Supreme…
Paktya province celebrates Pashto poetry
24 May 2010 - “Come, let us flee together, my love – let us leave the problems for the old greybeard to solve.” Though the residents of Paktya, known as Paktyawal, are men of swords and guns, their history is also full of romance, traditions and glorious adventures. In spite of the seemingly tough…
Insurgents from Farah and Herat join reconciliation process
25 May 2010 - Some 27 former members of the Taliban from the western provinces of Farah and Herat have surrendered their weapons and joined the reconciliation process. Twenty anti-government elements from the Khaki Safeid district of Farah province surrendered their weapons to the Peace and…
MACCA April 2010 newsletter
25 May 2010 - Download the latest monthly newsletter produced by the Mine Action Coordination Centre of Afghanistan (MACCA). English - Dari - Pashto
UNAMA's review of the week - photos and stories
27 May 2010 - Download UNAMA's review of the week in stories and photos. UNAMA NEWS - UNAMA PHOTOS
ADB president inaugurates rail line linking Afghanistan to central Asia
28 May 2010 - Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Haruhiko Kuroda has inaugurated at Hairatan a 75-kilometer stretch of railway line that connects the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif to the country's bustling northern border with Uzbekistan. "The new rail link between Mazar-i-Sharif and Hairatan…
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Road work continues in volatile South
KABUL - UNOPS and the Governments of Afghanistan and Australia, through the Australian Government Aid Programme, this month agreed to extend their joint efforts for road construction in Uruzgan, one of the most volatile southern provinces of Afghanistan. The tripartite agreement, signed in a…