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KABUL - The United Nations refugee agency has estimated that more than 9,000 families, comprising some 65,000 individuals, have been displaced into the south-eastern Afghan province of Khost following an ongoing large-scale…

NEW YORK - The Security Council welcomes the holding of the second round of the Afghan presidential election on 14 June and reiterates the importance of these historic elections to Afghanistan’s transition and democratic…

KABUL - At a meeting of the United Nations Security Council today, the world body’s top envoy in Afghanistan, Ján Kubiš, said that addressing the political impasse in the wake of the country’s recent Presidential run-off…

23 June 2014 - The UN family in Guinea-Bissau led by DSRSG, Gana Fofang, today attended the inauguration ceremony of the new President of the Republic, José Mario Vaz (also known as JOMAV), at 24 September National Stadium…

In mid-May, UN Police Officers at the Barclayville Team Site trained some 150 men from the local communities across Grand Kru County in Community Policing.The training sessions were organized under UNMIL’s Quick Impact…

KABUL - A senior United Nations official in Afghanistan said today that the world body stands ready, as the representative body of the international community, to assist in resolving the “current political impasse” that has…

KABUL - In its assessment of last Saturday’s second round run-off in Afghanistan’s Presidential elections, an Afghan election observer group today said that the election process was “good overall” although cases of…

More than 100 inmates of the National Palace of Corrections (NPC) in Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County, are benefiting from vocational skills training including laundry soap making.This training was recently introduced at the…

Mogadishu - Thank you very much the members of the media here in Mogadishu. It is my pleasure to welcome you here at UNCC [United Nations Common Compound]. I think it is the first time that we have had a conference here after…

8 June 2014 - UNIOGBIS and Bissau-Guinean government are granting free and live World Cup games to Guineans from 12 June to 13 July 2013 in various locations across the country. This unprecedented initiative in the country…