News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

2 April 2011, Nairobi - The Secretary-General spoke by telephone today with H.E. Mr. Hamid Karzai, the President of Afghanistan. The Secretary-General told President Karzai he was saddened and shocked by the attack on the UN…

2 April 2011 - The top UN envoy for Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, today returned to Kabul from the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, accompanying the bodies of seven colleagues killed in yesterday's attack on the UN's…

2 April 2011 - The Secretary-General spoke by telephone today with the Prime Minister of Nepal, H.E. Mr. Jhala Nath Khanal, and the Foreign Ministers of Norway, Sweden and Romania to express his deep condolences on the deaths…

KABUL - Staffan de Mistura : I will start first speaking to the Afghan colleagues. I have just returned a few minutes ago from Mazar-e-Sharif. I was waiting at the airport to receive our dead colleagues, to be received in…

3 April, Kabul - Afghanistan experienced its third day of protests in the wake of the burning of the Koran two weeks ago by a US pastor in Florida. Sunday’s protests occurred in many provinces and cities across the country…

KABUL - On 28 October 2009, attackers stormed the Bakhtar guest house in Kabul killing five United Nations staff as part of a plan to disrupt the presidential election runoff. We remember: Jossie Esto, UNDP electoral…

6 April 2011 - Ladies and Gentlemen, we gather, today, to mourn our colleagues. The roster of the fallen, in recent days, has been shocking and profoundly sad. We stand in solidarity with their friends and families, united in…

KABUL - A week-long exhibit on living with landmines and the many faces of Mine Action by photographer Marco Grob today opens at Bagh-e-Babur Garden in Kabul to mark the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in…

7 April 2011 - Drug resistance is becoming more severe and many infections are no longer easily cured, leading to prolonged and expensive treatment and greater risk of death, warns the World Health Organization (WHO) on World…

8 April 2011 - Filmmakers, activists, journalists, aid workers, policy-makers and United Nations staff are gathering in New York this weekend for a two-day documentary forum aimed at raising public awareness about the fight…