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On Friday, 30 August, 21 UNMIL staff stepped into a new world of opportunity when they received their graduation certificates from the Small Business Management Programme.Run jointly by the UNMIL Integrated Mission Training…

KABUL - On his first visit to Afghanistan, a senior official with the United Nations agency dealing with gender equality and the empowerment of women emphasized the need for greater political and economic empowerment of…

KABUL - Marking World Habitat Day today, the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, has called for making cities and towns more accessible. "People need to be able to get to work, school, hospitals and places of…

It was Saturday, 7 September, when the children of the Life Village Orphanage Home woke up to the sound of their gate opening to welcome to their home several members of the 17th Philippine Military Contingent (PHILCOY)…

GARDEZ - The particular needs of female prisoners in the south-eastern Afghan city of Gardez are being better-addressed following the United Nations-facilitated completion of a new female wing of the city prison – previously…

KABUL - Addressing a seminar in the western Afghan city of Herat, a senior United Nations official stressed that a key principal for the international community’s approach on the country’s Presidential election in 2014 is…

KABUL - The second International Afghanistan Human Rights Film Festival officially opened in the capital, Kabul, yesterday, with the screening of ‘Wajma’ – a feature film which Afghanistan has submitted for competition in the…

The Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Consolidation of Democratic Governance, Aeneas Chuma, has reassured Liberians that UNMIL will continue to work with Liberian authorities to strengthen the…

KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) registered a 16 per cent rise in the number of Afghan civilians killed or wounded during the first eight months of this year compared to the same period…

KABUL - Over 200 Afghan journalists, who gathered in the capital, Kabul, this week for the first-ever national congress of one of the country’s leading journalists’ association, vowed to cover next year’s Presidential and…