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KABUL - The Government of Afghanistan is contemplating to launching its first ever satellite or linking with an existing satellite to improve its internal and international communications. According to the Ministry of…

The Liberia National Police and UNPOL on 16 January held the first of what will be a series of press conferences this year. “Armed robbery has been reduced and LNP now maintains a no-nonsense approach toward criminality,”…

KUNDUZ - Carpet traders in Afghanistan’s northeastern Kunduz Province are hit hard by sharp decline in carpet export, which is a major source of income for the local population. “Since two years ago, we have over production,”…

KABUL - Civil society and media watchdog organizations urged the Government of Afghanistan today to immediately send the draft Access to Information Law to the parliament for approval in order to ensure “accountability…

KABUL - Eleven-year-old Mohamed Nasim, who is in sixth grade, wakes up at 5:30 every morning to take computer lessons in a makeshift classroom here in Borghaso village, Bamiyan Province, northwest of Kabul. He draws a house…

KABUL - The United Nations in Afghanistan has joined forces with national and international partners to expand and complement existing programmes to strengthen the capacity of women police, and improve access to justice for…

BADAKHSHAN - Food prices have spiraled in 17 districts of northeastern Badakhshan province as roads linking the towns with provincial capital, Faizabad City, remained closed due to recent snowfall, officials said on Friday…

The Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Rule of Law, Louis Aucoin, has hailed the launch of a nationwide campaign to fight child rape as a momentous step in efforts to fight “a terrible scourge.” The…

Newly appointed Deputy SRSG for Consolidation of Democratic Governance, Aeneas Chuma told journalists on 9 January, at UNMIL’s first press conference of the year, that his first impressions of Liberia have been favourable: “I…

KABUL - Afghanistan registered significant progress in defending rights of journalists and promoting freedom of the press in 2012, an achievement hailed by both journalists and the Government of Afghanistan. In its World…