12 October 2010 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa, Said Djinnit will travel to Guinea tomorrow 13 October 2010. The objective of the visit is to extend the support of the United Nations to…

13 October 2010 - Twenty-three trained midwives graduated on Monday from the Badakshan Community Midwifery Education School, at a ceremony that was attended by Government health officials and donor agencies’ representatives…

13 October 2010 - About 130 cricket-frenzied girls in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province gathered on Monday in Jalalabad to play a UN-funded cricket match, something unthinkable for girls until recent years in this part…

11 Oct 2010 - United Nations health agency World Health Organization (WHO) pledged to continue working with the Government so as to reach remote populations with increased health services in the under-resourced province of…

10 October 2010 - On the occasion of World Mental Health Day, Afghan government officials, the World Health Organization and the European Commission reinforced the need to take action and make progress against mental…

10 October 2010 - A six-month legal and judicial awareness programme has been launched in Khost province to advance the rule of law over traditional tribal conflict resolution systems by making people familiar with the…

KABUL - It is with great sadness that all of us in the humanitarian and development community, and in particular those of us who worked with her in the United Nations, learnt of the death of Linda Norgrove. Dari - Pashto Her…

10 October 2010 - It is with great sadness that all of us in the humanitarian and development community, and in particular those of us who worked with her in the United Nations, learnt of the death of Linda Norgrove. Her…

10 October 2010, Kabul - One hundred girls and 200 boys will spend three days on 11-13 October with members of the Afghan national cricket team and a female trainer specially brought from Pakistan, learning how to bat, bowl…

9 October 2010 - Women’s rights was the focus of a recent event in Qalat, capital of Zabul province, where speakers talked about women’s rights as enshrined in both Islam and the Constitution of Afghanistan. Hundreds of women…

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7 October 2010 - Over twenty representatives from various civil society organizations gathered in Herat on Wednesday at the initiative of the United Nations to discuss how to improve the delivery and monitoring of government…