News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

KABUL - At an event organized by the humanitarian community in Afghanistan to mark World Humanitarian Day, over 50 donors, government, NGO and media representatives gathered to listen to speeches highlighing the growing importance of humanitarian need in Afghanistan and paying tribute to thousands…

KABUL - The World Press Freedom Day, was celebrated today in Kabul in International Press Center of Ministry of Information and Culture, to highlight and recognize the most important achievement of the post-Taliban democracy—the media development and freedom. English Mr. Sayed Makhdom Raheen…

KABUL - A group of experts from the World Health Organization spent last week on a surveillance mission across the country with the aim to gauge the effectiveness of Afghanistan's surveillance system that is used to detect polio virus circulation among the population. The strategy used to identify…

KABUL - UNICEF is distributing emergency assistance in the provinces that have been worst affected by recent floods, ensuring that the urgent needs of children are met. The flooding follows torrential rains that have hit central and eastern parts of Afghanistan in the course of the last week. Afghan…

KABUL - “Afghan priorities for the Afghan people,” will be the focus of the International Conference on Afghanistan – the Kabul Conference, the Afghan Minister of Finance, Dr Omar Zakhilwal has stated. Dr Omar Zakhilwal was speaking after a meeting of the 14th Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board…

KABUL - A survey on Drug Use in Afghanistan, issued today by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, shows that around one million Afghans (age 15-64) suffer from drug addiction. At eight per cent of the population, this rate is…

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…

KABUL - The United Nations and the Government of Afghanistan today emphasized the need for freedom of information and the importance of a free press at a day-long event in Kabul to mark World Press Freedom Day, celebrated world-wide on 3 May. This year’s theme highlights the public’s right to gain…

KABUL - The importance of funding in Education is paramount to the attainment of the EFA goals in Afghanistan. This genuine need was echoed in today’s ceremony which focused on celebrating the Education for All, Global Action Week in Afghanistan. The education stakeholders in the country expressed…

KABUL - The Mine Action Coordination Centre of Afghanistan (MACCA) today condemned attacks on humanitarian deminers, following an attack on a team working for Afghan NGO DAFA in Kandahar on the 11 April which resulted in the death of five deminers and a further 17 being injured. MACCA is the…

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…

KABUL - Today an important partnership was forged to combat the illegal trade in chemicals which destroy the earth’s protective ozone layer and contribute to climate change. PDF The partnership was cemented through the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the United Nations…