KANDAHAR - The people of Kandahar, particularly Ulemas, have strongly condemned the fighting tactics of the insurgents, in which they use public properties to reach their goals and cause huge casualties to innocent civilians…

Mogadishu, 25 July 2012 – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia, Dr. Augustine P. Mahiga, today called on all Somali people to participate fully and peacefully in the remaining political…

KABUL - Social media is becoming an intrinsic part of urban life in Afghanistan and Afghan youth are increasingly using social websites and weblogs on the internet for wider communications and debates on all kinds of social…

About 27,000 health workers, volunteers and community mobilizers fanned out across 16 provinces of Afghanistan over the past two weeks in a drive to eradicate measles and polio from the country under a UN-supported Government…

KABUL - Last week, 214 Afghan civilians were killed or wounded in 48 separate incidents in Afghanistan. Anti-government elements were responsible for 98 per cent of these civilian casualties. Two gruesome suicide attacks…

Mogadishu, 24 July 2012 – UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Augustine Mahiga tonight expressed his shock and sadness at the sudden passing of Ghana's President John Atta Mills. "I am deeply…

KABUL - As Afghanistan’s donors pledged US$ 16 billion for the country’s economic and development needs at an international conference in Tokyo today, the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon also assured Afghanistan…

KABUL - Michael Keating, the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Afghanistan, said the international support to the Afghan security forces post-2014 should be matched by “generous level of funding” in…

KABUL - A day after a three-day national gathering of Afghan youth concluded in the capital Kabul, the youth leaders today marched to the Presidential Palace to submit their recommendations – that sought acceleration of peace…

KABUL - Afghan civil society has demanded an active role in decision making, policy development and monitoring of the policy implementations within the framework of mutual accountability endorsed in the Tokyo Conference on…

The head of the United Nations agency tasked with advancing gender equality has condemned the recent violence against women in Afghanistan and stressed the need to protect their rights. UN News Centre article Michelle…

KABUL- Representatives of major Afghan political parties mulled yesterday establishment of an inter-party consultation mechanism that would serve in the future as a common forum to discuss elections, electoral law and…