News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

KABUL - Launch of Annual Report 2012: Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict.

KABUL - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has granted Afghanistan membership to International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), which seeks to secure coordinated and effective action to prevent and control the introduction and spread of pests of plants and plant products…

NEW YORK - A top United Nations humanitarian official today stressed the need to keep global attention focused on Afghan human development needs, as part of the wider international engagement with and support for the country. ( UN News Centre) Summary transcript of the Press Conference by DSRSG…

KABUL - About a month ago a Kabul resident was enjoying a midsummer evening with his family at a hotel on a lake outside of the city. It was such a pleasant evening that the man decided he wanted to record parts of it. He slipped away to retrieve his camera. What happened next is representative of…

NANGARHAR - Community elders and leaders from Afghanistan’s eastern provinces, who gathered in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province last week, said that security situation was deteriorating and this might affect next year’s elections. Speaking at the gathering attended by thousands of people…

NANGARHAR - Civil society representatives in eastern Nangarhar province urged Governor Gul Agha Sherzai to stem corruption and ensure good governance in government institutions last week. In a five-point resolution of the civil society submitted to the Governor, the Civil Society Council, urged the…

KHOST - A 20-bed hospital for treatment of drug addicts was inaugurated in Khost province, local officials said on Saturday. Addressing an inauguration ceremony, the head of the Khost counter-narcotics department, Mirna Gul Taniwal, said the cultivation of poppy crop was “zero” and smuggling of…

SAR-I-PUL- Incidents of rape and self-immolation among women have been on the increase in northern Sar-i-Pul province, an official said on Thursday. So far 125 cases of violence against women have been registered in the province since the start of this solar year, the women’s affairs director…

BAMYAN - Two schools in the Yakawlang district of Afghanistan’s central Bamyan province have spent the past two weeks serving as the pilot sites for a United-Nations backed community policing project – locally known as Police e-Mardumi – aimed at improving public safety. “The project is useful and…

KANDAHAR - Senior government officials in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province highlighted the need to have more women in politics, good governance and decision-making, at a United Nations-organized event last week. “Women should have their rights which are enshrined in the Constitution of…

BALKH - Eleven-year-old Gulsum, a victim of a harmful tradition, ‘ Baad,’ finally had to take the risk of running away from her forced marriage in Sar-i-Pul province’ s capital city on Tuesday. According to provincial women affairs director Nasima Arezu, the victim had been given in to forced…

NANGARHAR - A dispute between three sub-tribes has ended in Haska Mina district following mediation by the provincial Department of Tribal Affairs and elders. According to Wajiurahman, the Department head, a special jirga (‘a gathering of elders’) was organized at his department to end the dispute…