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8 May 2015 – SRSG Miguel Trovoada attended today in Dakar, Senegal, the 27th high-level consultation meeting of the Heads of the UN Peace Missions in West Africa at the invitation of Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special…

KABUL - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has launched an exhibition of the top 15 designs for the new cultural centre which will be built in Bamyan, Afghanistan’s world heritage…

Your Excellency Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of the Republic of Liberia, Mr President [His Excellency, President of the Republic of Togo], Honourable invitees, All protocol observed;I'm privileged to have served in…

KABUL - “War is unaffordable” for Afghanistan and the country won’t survive if there isn’t peace. That’s the message from the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and head of UNAMA, Nicholas Haysom…

9 May 2015 – The World Health Organization ( WHO) has declared Liberia free of Ebola virus transmission as forty-two days have passed since the last laboratory-confirmed case was buried on 28 March, a “monumental achievement”…

KUNDUZ - A new UNAMA campaign to promote the rights of people in detention is rolling out through the provinces of Baghlan, Kunduz, Takhar and BadakhshanTwenty promotional banners are on display in public places aimed at…

BAMYAN - Around 25 key religious scholars and community leaders from Afghanistan’s Bamyan province have agreed to form a joint committee with the elders of neighbouring Baghlan province to coordinate and share efforts to…

UNIOGBIS and the Bissau-Guinean union of journalists organized a film screening and debate to mark World Press Freedom Day. The event took place at the Lusófona University with the participation of hundreds of students from…

KUNAR - At a United Nations-backed televised debate in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Kunar, religious scholars and civil society activists stressed the need for public awareness campaigns to be launched focusing on the…

KABUL - World Press Freedom Day was marked in Afghanistan today with speeches and awards to journalists who produced top reports on key issues affecting the lives of Afghans. At an event in Kabul hosted by an Afghan media…