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. "I strongly believe that…

KABUL - Press conference by Nilab Mobarez, Press Officer, UNAMA. Dari - Pashto UNAMA [translated from Dari]: Good morning everyone and welcome to today’s press conference. I have some announcements from UN agencies and then I…

KABUL - Nearly nine million Afghans will benefit from United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP) projects in 2009. WFP distributed over 21,000 tons of food to more than 1.5 million Afghans in all 34 provinces of the country…

12 April 2009 - A US$ two million project underway in the north-eastern province of Baghlan is helping poor Afghan farmers become self-sufficient. 6,600 fruit trees such as almond, apricot, peach and plum and four types of…

KABUL - The High Office of Oversight for implementation of the anti-corruption strategy and UNDP signed a partnership agreement to launch the second phase of the Accountability and Transparency (ACT) project. English

KABUL - Press conference by Amada Benavides De Perez and Alexander Nikitin, United Nations working group on the use of mercenaries and Dan McNorton, Press Officer, UNAMA. Dari - Pashto UNAMA: Salem alilkum. Sobh ba Khair…

UN Special Representative for Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah condemns the recent rash of piracy off the coast of Somalia.

KABUL - More than 200,000 people will benefit from a newly constructed hospital in the Kama district of the eastern province of Nangarhar. “Before the establishment of this hospital we used to travel for several hours to take…

8 April 2009 - Plans are underway in Mazar-i-Sharif for the rebuilding of the city’s main hospital which burnt down two years ago. On 19 September 2006 a sudden fire from an electrical spark in the wiring system of the…

8 April 2009 - The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon has urged President Hamid Karzai to abolish a controversial family law which applies to Afghanistan’s minority Shi’a community members. “I want to take this…

7 April 2009 - Sign language in Afghanistan is leaping ahead with the publication of 4,000 signs for the deaf and hard of hearing to use. A few years ago only 2,000 signs existed, but with the introduction of additional signs…

KABUL - One the eve of World Health Day a senior UN official has called for hospitals and medical staff to be protected in Afghanistan. “WHO would like to take this opportunity to call on all actors involved in the conflict…