News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

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 regional operations centre. Three international staff and four international…

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 of their citizens in the attack on the UN offices in Mazar-e-Sharif in…

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 dignity, and they have just arrived. And we were there together with the…

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, and were mostly peaceful though the southern region of Kandahar continued to…

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 volunteer from the Philippines Louis Maxwell, close protection officer from the…

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 sorrow, but united also in our mission. Like those who have gone before…

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 Mine Action. Watch Jeremy Renner in Afghanistan with the United Nations…

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 Health Day. Under the theme "Combat Drug Resistance", WHO calls for urgent…

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 against hunger worldwide. UN News Centre story The third annual “Envision…

KABUL - The Afghan Ministry of Public Health and the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) are warning that urgent action is needed to curb excessive use of antibiotics and other antimicrobials or the world risks returning to an era before the discovery of these medicines. “We are seeing…