24 January 2013 - Despite political challenges and concerns about human rights, Burundi has continued to make progress in peace consolidation, security and stability as well as improving human rights situation, the United…

KABUL - A US$ 250 million grant, to finance the ongoing third phase of the National Solidarity Program (NSP III) of the Government of Afghanistan, was signed today between the Ministry of Finance and the World Bank. The…

BAMYAN - Habiba Sarabi, the Governor of Bamyan province, said that the Government of Afghanistan and the International Community should support and equip the Afghan security forces prior to the withdrawal of the international…

BAMYAN - Officials at the Department of Disaster and Emergency Response in Bamyan province started distribution of winterization packages for 7,000 poor families in the province. Ahmed Reza Rafat of the Disaster and Emergency…

KANDAHAR - The communications director at the Kandahar Governor’s office, Engineer Shah Mohammad Eshaq, said yesterday that there had been “significant progress” in communication, mobile services and Internet services in the…

3 January 2013 - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed José Ramos-Horta of Timor-Leste as his Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau…

KABUL - In a report released today, UNAMA found that despite significant efforts by the Government of Afghanistan and international partners to address ill-treatment of conflict-related detainees, torture persists and remains…

KABUL - A total of 1,200 poor returnee families in Afghanistan’s Central Highlands Region have received non-food items and “cold packages” from United Nations agencies to keep them warm this winter. The UN Refugee Agency…

KABUL - A 15-part television series, Kocha-e-Ma (Our Street), that tells the story of real life in Afghanistan in an imaginary area of old Kabul, was premiered in Kabul yesterday. The private channel, One TV (or “ Yak TV”)…

KANDAHAR - During a meeting organized at the Public Health Department yesterday, the religious scholars and teachers pledged to play their part in raising public awareness about polio vaccination in southern Kandahar province…

KABUL - A meeting of nine Afghan journalist associations and media rights groups announced today in Kabul the formation of an umbrella media body to ensure freedom of expression as enshrined in the Constitution of Afghanistan…

GHAZNI - Local women staged a protest yesterday in Ghazni City against growing violence against them and the authorities’ failure to arrest the perpetrators. The protestors marched from the Provincial Council Office to the…