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20 July 2009 - Afghanistan’s presidential and provincial council elections on 20 August are just one month away. Forty one presidential candidates, including two women and more than 3,000 provincial council candidates are…
KABUL - For the first time ever two Afghan climbers have reached the summit of Afghanistan’s highest mountain. The two climbers, Amruddin and Malang, reached the 7,492 metres summit of Noshaq in the Hindu Kush in the Wakhan…
19 July 2009 - The past year has witnessed a rise in violence against women in Afghanistan and of its public acceptance, according to the UN women’s development fund, UNIFEM.
KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the Peace Dividend Trust today met with procurement officials from the international community and, again, urged them to buy locally-produced products…
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Kinshasa 17 July 2009 - MONUC shares the concerns of humanitarian organizations that civilians are bearing the brunt of FDLR reprisals for current efforts to dismantle rebel forces in eastern Congo (DRC). However, a suggested…
In a bid to improve the lives of orphans in Western Bahr El Ghazal State, UNMIS' Chinese medical team donated medicine, stationary and food to Wau's El Shadai Orphanage on 25 May. In a bid to improve the lives of orphans in…
Considerable success had been achieved in Sudan's peace process, but challenges still remained, UNMIS Deputy Force Commander Brig. Gen. Stanislaus Tembo said during a visit to Abyei on 11 May. Considerable success had been…
The Japanese were prepared to assist in rebuilding education infrastructures in Southern Sudan, Yosika Kijimo, Director for Humanitarian Assistance in the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said during a recent visit to a…
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Abidjan, 16 July 2009... The Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) Section of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) on Thursday organized a meeting with the United Nations Development Programme…
16 July 2009 - With the winter past, the spring rains over and the hot summer upon Afghanistan parts of the country become truly green again. In the north the Green Afghanistan Initiative (GAIN) has been implementing…