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KABUL - Highlighting serious health consequences due to the lack of access to hygienic sanitation facilities for billions of people around the world, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for placing…

KABUL - Afghanistan’s Southern Region has today, for the first time ever, reached one full year without any reported cases of wild poliovirus, giving a boost to the country’s fight against the crippling disease. This…

KABUL - Farmers in three of Afghanistan’s northern provinces are switching to regular crops such as wheat and onion as major alternatives to opium poppies, the cultivation of which rose to record levels this year, prompting…

Less than two years after UNMIL reached out to Grand Cess in Grand Kru County, building a magisterial courthouse for the town, local authorities were again all smiles last month, as they received yet another building from the…

Lt. William Abbott was driving along a highway southeast of Zwedru when he noticed a woman who had just given birth on the side of the road. She was almost 10km from the nearest clinic and desperately needed assistance. The…

HELMAND - During a joint mission to Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province earlier this week, officials from six United Nations agencies met with local authorities on how they could strengthen their partnership in responding…

11 November 2013 – New regional offices of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS) in Bafatá (East) and Buba (Quinará South) were inaugurated over the weekend by the Special…

KUNDUZ - The newly-appointed governor to Kunduz today vowed to bring visible and positive changes to the security situation and accelerate the reconstruction process within two months.Ghulam Sakhi Baghlani, who replaced…

KABUL - Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan rose to record levels this year with a 36 per cent increase compared to last year, according to a new survey launched today by the United Nations drug and crime agency and the…

Over 150 students are going to have better schooling facilities thanks to the Pakistani Force Quick Reaction Force (FQRF), which refurbished the Go-Ye Apostolic Pentecostal Community School, and also added on an additional…