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BAMYAN - Five years ago, in the central province of Bamyan in Afghanistan, one woman walked into a police station to join up. At a time when women were scared of even walking in front of police stations, Nahida Reza, 26, took…
16 May 2009 - The district of Surkh-e-Parsa lies at the upper end of the Ghorband Valley, not far from where the road begins to climb the bare hills to the Shibar Pass. Three green valleys converge at the district centre of…
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N'Djamena, 14 May 2009 – The local DIS (Détachement intégré de sécurité) station in Goz Amer, a town near Goz Beida in eastern Chad, was attacked by six unidentified armed men in civilian clothes, on the night of 13 May. A…
KABUL - In an exclusive interview for UNAMA, the head of Afghanistan’s environmental agency calls for more trees to be planted in the country. In May 2005 President Hamid Karzai issued a special executive presidential order…
KABUL - Demining in the south and east of Afghanistan is taking on a new shape this year as different communities take on the task of demining their own districts. In October 2008 a community based demining project, which…
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Johnson Abbah Umama was never lost in the crowd in Nyala. With his booming voice, friends and UNAMID colleagues often heard him enter a room before they saw him, and with his jovial, outspoken nature, he always seemed to be…
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Khartoum, 14 May 2009 - The head of the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) held a series of meetings in Khartoum today with senior Sudanese Government officials as part of his continuing efforts to…
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Abidjan, 14 May 2009...... The United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) welcomes the announcement of the 29 November 2009 for the holding of presidential election. This is a positive development in the crisis…
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N'djamena, 14 May 2009 – A Ghanaian contingent of 131 soldiers has joined the UN peacekeeping mission in Chad and the Central African Republic known as MINURCAT. The newly arrived Ghanaian peacekeepers are currently in…