News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

DAI KUNDI - Over four thousand people from around Dai Kundi came out today to celebrate the city’s Almond Festival, an annual event organized by the provincial government. Almond cultivation is a significant driver of the Dai…

KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) welcomes the appointment today of a new chairman of the High Peace Council, Salahuddin Rabbani. This appointment provides an opportunity to renew efforts to…

KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) condemns the attacks launched yesterday by armed insurgents on Afghan institutions and foreign embassies in several provinces, including the capital Kabul…

NEW YORK - The Secretary-General condemns in the strongest possible terms the coordinated attacks that were carried out yesterday and today against state institutions and international organisations, including foreign…

Mine risk education programmes help to educate Afghans, especially children and women, about the threats of mines and unexploded ordinance KABUL - Shafiqa Zurmati, a mine risk education (MRE) trainer, distributes pictures of…

KABUL - The following Security Council press statement was issued on 17 April by Council President Susan Rice (United States): The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the coordinated terrorist…

KABUL - Afghanistan’s two largest opium-growing regions are unlikely to see an increase in cultivation this year, whereas a number of other provinces, particularly in the country’s west, will see modest increases in…

KABUL - Afghan authorities have launched an investigation into the suspected poisoning of 156 female students attending a public school in Rostaq District of Takhar Province. According to the Ministry of Education in Kabul…

BRUSSELS - Excellencies, Secretary General, ladies and gentlemen, Thank you for the opportunity to address your meeting today, for the first time in my current capacity. NATO, ISAF and UNAMA are separately mandated by the…

ASHGABAT - Afghanistan’s neighbours have an important role to play in stabilizing the country, said Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General Nicholas Haysom. He was speaking last week in Ashgabat at the second…

NEW YORK - The World Bank’s Board of Directors today discussed its Interim Strategy Note (ISN) for the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan which provides a sustained commitment and vision to the country’s development through the…

KABUL - Commemorating World Vaccination Week at the Malalai Lycee School for girls, Dr. Suraya Dalil, Minister of Public Health (MoPH) of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Mr Sediq Patman, Deputy Minister of Education and…