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KABUL - Afghanistan 's fiercely cold winter, the raging insecurity and funding shortfalls are having a major impact on the health of millions of people in this war-ravaged country.

KABUL - Afghanistan's road system, damaged by decades of war and a serious impediment to economic growth, faces reconstruction and rehabilitation.

KABUL - The potential export value of Afghanistan’s opium has dropped 18 per cent this year, the United Nations anti-drug body reported today, but it cautioned that further progress hinges on rooting out corruption in the…

KABUL - Eight years after the end of Taliban rule, women in Afghanistan still continue to face injustice and are often punished for "moral crimes."

GENEVA - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has made its first visit to Afghan prisoners held by the Taliban. The visit took place last month in the north-western province of Badghis. Patrick Maigua reports…

KABUL - A new vaccine against polio will be used for the first time, today, in Afghanistan, as a campaign to immunize some 3 million children gets underway. The bivalent oral vaccine, known as bOPV, can protect children…

KABUL - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will enter its fourth decade of engagement with the refugee crisis in Afghanistan this month. Press Conference Transcript The Soviet occupation of the country…

KABUL - The Government of the Italian Republic is to provide EUR 1.8 million to support the Government of Afghanistan’s disaster management efforts in western Afghanistan, increasing the country’s capacity to cope with…

KABUL - Afghanistan is the first country ever to use bivalent oral polio vaccine during the Sub National Immunization Campaign on 15-17 December 2009. UNICEF Press Release The campaign targets a total of 2.8 million Children…

KABUL - The United Nations refugee agency is slated to build a further 10,000 homes in Afghanistan next year in a bid to ease the return of Afghans who have fled decades of violence in the war-wracked nation and encourage…