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Indian and Nepalese Formed Police Units joined forces on Saturday, 17 May 2014, to provide free medical services to a community in Paynesville, in the outskirts of Monrovia.The contingents rendered their medical services at…

KABUL - As Afghans voted in the second round run-off of their country’s Presidential elections today, a senior official with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) – on a visit to a polling centre in the…

KABUL - Encouraging Afghans to take part in the upcoming elections, calling on the Afghan security forces to secure the polls, asking the country’s two election management bodies to fully implement recommendations to improve…

UNMIL continues to build the entrepreneurial capacities of its national staff members as the Mission gradually reduces the number of peacekeepers in the country as part of its drawdown. On 16 May 2014, the Integrated Mission…

KABUL - The Afghan body responsible for organizing Saturday’s second round run-off in the country’s Presidential elections has said that more than 6,300 polling centres will open on the day – an increase of about 150 centres…

Despite a downpour, hundreds of civilian and uniformed peacekeepers turned out at UNMIL Headquarters on Thursday, 29 May 2014, to honour their colleagues who lost their lives in the name of peace over the past year. The…

KABUL - In a United Nations-backed report released today in the Afghan capital of Kabul, a group of Afghan civil society organizations called for a number of measures to be taken – including tackling widespread corruption…

KABUL - A United Nations human rights official today called on human rights and Afghan civil society organizations to monitor and assist the government to meet its legal obligations to protect the rights of all Afghans in…

2 June 2014 - Interpol Secretary-General, Ronald Kenneth Noble, today, made an unprecedented visit to Bissau, as a sign of the organization's support to national authorities as the country is returning to constitutional order…

KABUL - As Afghanistan prepares for the 14 June Presidential run-off election, a senior United Nations official has called on the country’s electoral and security bodies to address the shortcomings in the first round and work…