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On Wednesday 4 December, 2013, UNMIL handed over the Karloken Magistrate’s Court building –- a Quick Impact Project –- to the authorities in Maryland County.Speaking on the occasion, Resident Judge Nelson Tokpa applauded…

KABUL - Reversing a decline in civilian casualties recorded in 2012, the number of civilians killed or injured in Afghanistan’s armed conflict increased by 14 per cent in 2013, according to a new United Nations report…

7 February 2014 - Statement by the Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) of the United Nations for Guinea-Bissau on the conclusion of the voter registration process announced by transition Government.I…

Assigned to the field office in Fishtown, River Gee County, UNPOL Bin Sun from China arrived in the small south-east Liberian outpost with an interesting thought up his sleeves: take the mentoring of his LNP counterparts well…

HERAT - Local officials in Herat announced they have started a process to collect all drug addicts form the city and send them to a shelter.The Provincial Governor, Fazlullah Wahidi, said in an interview that a shelter has…

KABUL - The top United Nations official in Afghanistan said today that the level of women’s participation in the upcoming Presidential and Provincial Council elections, slated for 5 April, will be “a key measure of success”…

Students of the Tubman Wilson Institute (TWI) in Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County, received a special New Year gift on 9 January, when medics at the Indian PFPU-2 Clinic deployed in their campus and provided them with free medical…

Prince Hinneh is a survivor of mob violence. He is also one of hundreds who turned up at Monrovia’s Slip Way Football Pitch on Saturday, 25 January, for the official launch of a nationwide “Stop Mob Violence” campaign.“As a…

KABUL - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on all those engaged in armed hostilities around the world to observe the Olympic Truce by laying down their weapons, as the Russian city of Sochi prepares to…

KABUL - The United Nations human rights chief has warned that “hard-won gains” that Afghanistan has made since 2001 in a range of areas, including human rights, “may be forfeited” for the sake of short-term political goals as…