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06 April 2010 - The President of the Security Council in April, Ambassador Yukio Takasu, has called for a rethinking of the strategy to create stability in Guinea-Bissau. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday following a meeting…

KABUL - Deminers commemorate the International Day for Mine Awareness in Afghanistan where more than 15,000 minefields and battlefields have been cleared in the last two decades.

KABUL - Across Afghanistan the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action has been marked today with a number of events and activities. In Kabul five young artists painted their vision of the dangers…

1 April 2010 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged the military and political leadership of Guinea-Bissau to resolve their differences peacefully and to maintain constitutional order and the rule of law, after military…

NEW YORK - A UN survey says that Afghanistan, the world's biggest producer of opium, is now also the global leader when it comes to the production of hashish.

KABUL - The top United Nations official in Afghanistan has condemned an attack by gunmen against a German aid agency in the east of the country that killed a local engineer and severely injured an international aid worker…

KABUL - Today UNODC releases its first-ever Afghanistan Cannabis Survey showing that the world’s biggest producer of opium is also a major producer of cannabis. Full report Way down from the earlier figure of 70,000 hectares…

KABUL - The United Nations human rights office is urging that Afghanistan’s poor be at the centre of decision-making processes that affect their lives, after a new report found that rights abuses are exacerbating poverty in…

KABUL - Whether you sit down and have a cup of tea with Omara Khan Massoudi, the Director of the National Museum, or Nancy Hatch Dupree, Afghanistan’s grandmother, every one of the country’s cultural experts has an informed…

KABUL - Today an important partnership was forged to combat the illegal trade in chemicals which destroy the earth’s protective ozone layer and contribute to climate change. PDF The partnership was cemented through the…