KABUL - Until two years ago, Lona, a widow and mother of two, had no job, couldn’t send her daughter to school and had difficulties to make her ends meet. To add insult to injury, following her husband’s death, her in-laws…

KABUL - The public awareness campaign for the forthcoming elections is continuing in Jalalabad in Nangarhar province and in the surrounding districts. One man carrying out the huge awareness programme is Mohammad Gharanay, 54…

KABUL - A major cultural and demining operation is taking place to protect ancient archaeological sites in Afghanistan’s historical province of Bamyan. The UN’s cultural organisation (UNESCO) and the Mine Action Coordination…

13 June 2009 - Under-Secretary-General B. Lynn Pascoe today underscored the United Nations and international community willingness to help Guinea-Bissau people and government moving forward. "The international community was…

Nairobi, 14 April 2009 - The UN Special Representative for Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, has called piracy an "international scourge" which is damaging to ordinary Somalis, the region and the world.

KABUL - Nafissa, a 13-year-old Afghani girl, should ideally be spending her day playing with her friends, toys and dolls like most kids her age. Instead, she works at Torkham border, her back, now, bent from carrying the…

KABUL - Today marks the one hundred day countdown by the United Nations to the International Day of Peace on 21 September 2009. In Afghanistan, Peace Day has been widely celebrated for the last two years with a huge campaign…

Nairobi, 09 June 2009 - The UN Special Representative for Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, has announced that the 15th meeting of the International Contact Group will be held in Rome from 9 – 10 June. Representatives from more…

11 June 2009 - The United Nations Children’s Fund in Afghanistan today committed itself to continue supporting efforts to stem the country’s continuing incidence of child labour. Early this year, the Government of Afghanistan…

KABUL - Presidential and provincial candidates for the forthcoming elections were today given their positions on the ballot paper. Candidates or their representatives picked out chits with a given number from a box, in a…

11 June 2009 - Presidential and provincial candidates for the forthcoming elections were today given their positions on the ballot paper. Candidates or their representatives picked out chits with a given number from a box, in…

9 June 2009 - The Security Council today spoke out against the recent killings of top political figures in Guinea-Bissau, serving as a "tragic setback" to the West African nation which has been rocked by a series of civil…