News stories

KABUL - In the midst of ongoing violence, more than 100 Afghan artists and activists today gave away 10,000 pink balloons to residents of the country’s capital, Kabul, in what may have been the largest public art installation…

KABUL - Watched by Afghanistan’s first female Olympian, more than 150 girls from high schools in the capital, Kabul, competed today in a track and field event held to select female athletes for the country’s female Athletics…

22 May 2013 - The United Nations Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations political mission in Guinea-Bissau to assist in finding solutions to the political and economic crisis being exacerbated by…

KABUL - From mountain glaciers to rural wetlands, Afghanistan is rich in biodiversity but these sources of water are coming under pressure and need to be protected, according to the United Nations Environmental Programme…

KABUL - There are currently at least 600 women and girls imprisoned in Afghanistan for “moral crimes,” an increase of 50 per cent over the past 18 months, according to an international non-governmental organization (NGO)…

MAZAR-E-SHARIF - Plans to turn the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif into a regional transportation hub have taken a jump forward with the opening of a new airport terminal. While the airport has yet to be officially…

KABUL - As cultural institutions around the world opened their doors this week for International Museum Day, the expansion of Afghanistan's own National Museum came a step closer to completion. Renovations to the old building…

18 May 2013 - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Guinea-Bissau, José Ramos-Horta, welcomed on Saturday in Bissau the efforts being made by the Guinean authorities to form a broad-based government…

On 21 March 2013 Our Lady of Good Counsel Fatima High School emerged winners of a music and drama competition organized by UNMIL’s Conduct and Discipline Team for schools in Maryland County as part of the Mission’s drive…

More than 60 text books on English Literature, geography, biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics were presented to the management of Sinoe Multilateral High School by UNMIL Sector “A” Commander Brig.-Gen. Ki Abdulkarim…