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KABUL - Providing children with access to education in remote and conflict-affected areas, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) recently completed 52 new community-based schools in Afghanistan’s southeastern province…

KABUL - In June, Afghanistan’s National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA) declared the Shah Foladi region of Bamyan province as the third protected area in the country. In 2009, NEPA declared Bamyan’s Band-e-Amir—an area…

KABUL - For decades, Afghans have been migrating to other countries to help their families back home, driven abroad by prolonged conflict, poverty, unemployment and underemployment. The bulk of these migrants have travelled…

ISLAMABAD - Nicholas Haysom, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, met this morning with Sartaj Aziz, Adviser to the Pakistan Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs.Mr. Haysom is…

NEW YORK - The Secretary-General is deeply saddened by the loss of life in Afghanistan as a result of avalanches, landslides and floods in Kabul, Parwan, Panjsher, Kapisa, Badakhshan and Nuristan provinces.The Secretary…

JALALABAD - Despite security challenges, thousands of health workers fanned out across Afghanistan’s eastern provinces last week to administer life-saving polio drops to nearly one million children under age five, as part of…

HERAT - The Government of Afghanistan’s western Herat province presented last week a three-year plan, consisting of more than 1,000 development projects, to international donors.The US$504 million plan, developed with the…

TEHRAN - Nicholas Haysom, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, met on Saturday in Tehran with Ibrahim Rahimpour, the Deputy Foreign Minister of Islamic Republic of Iran. Mr. Haysom is stressing…

19 February 2015 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA), Mohamed Ibn Chambas, today started a two-day visit to Bissau.After a meeting with his…

18 February 2015 – The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Peace-Building Office in Guinea-Bissau, known as UNIOGBIS, so that it can continue to assist in tackling a range of political…