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Former UNAMA chief gives frank opinion on current crisis

12th January, 2021 · admin · Leave a comment

Ariana: Kai Eide, former head of UNAMA has pointed a finger at Afghanistan’s leaders and said there is little unity among them and that hostile statements made could undermine the peace process. Referring specifically to the first vice president, Eide said: “I see Amrullah Saleh, the vice president, constantly (making) what I would call rather

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Posted in Peace Talks, Political News, Security, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Amrullah Saleh, Ashraf Ghani Government |
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Miniature artists call on UNESCO to include Afghanistan on heritage list

26th December, 2020 · admin · Leave a comment

Ariana: Afghan Miniature artists have urged the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to include Afghanistan in its Persian Miniature cultural heritage listings alongside other countries in the region. This comes after UNESCO’s Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage Committee last week listed Persian Miniature as intangible heritage of Iran, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan. Afghanistan

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Posted in Art and Culture, History, UN-Afghanistan Relations |
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US, UN Slam Targeted Killings of Prominent Afghan Civilians

23rd December, 2020 · admin · 3 Comments

Ayaz Gul VOA News December 23, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Officials in Afghanistan say gunmen Wednesday killed the head of an independent elections watchdog in Kabul, the latest casualty in a string of mostly unclaimed recent attacks against prominent civilians. The violence has claimed the lives of dozens of people, particularly in the Afghan capital. The

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Posted in Anti-Government Militants, Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Security, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Assassination |
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Rare UN-Taliban Agreement to Set Up 4,000 Schools in Insurgent-Held Afghan Territory

19th December, 2020 · admin · 5 Comments

Ayaz Gul VOA News December 19, 2020 ISLAMABAD – UNICEF has struck a rare agreement with the Taliban in war-ravaged Afghanistan to establish thousands of informal schools in areas controlled by the Islamist insurgent group. The program will reach up to 140,000 Afghan boys and girls, said Sam Mort, the agency’s chief of communications, advocacy

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Posted in Afghan Children, Education, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations |
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UN Documents 30% Drop in Afghan Civilian Casualties

27th October, 2020 · admin · 5 Comments

Ayaz Gul VOA News October 27, 2020 ISLAMABAD – The United Nations says the conflict in Afghanistan has killed and injured nearly 6,000 civilians during the first nine months of 2020, representing a 30% decline compared to the same period last year. The report compiled by the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) comes as

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Security, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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Ghani Urges World To Support Peace In Afghanistan In Speech To UN

24th September, 2020 · admin · 15 Comments

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 24, 2020 Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has urged the world to help his country achieve peace amid talks with the Taliban aimed at ending nearly two decades of conflict. In a prerecorded speech to the UN General Assembly delivered on September 23, Ghani said the Afghan government had demonstrated the

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Posted in Peace Talks, Political News, Security, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ashraf Ghani |
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Illegal mining costs Afghanistan millions annually: UN

25th August, 2020 · admin · 2 Comments

AA: In its latest National Human Development Report on mineral extraction in Afghanistan, the UN Development Program said the war-ravaged country could have collected over $100 million from minerals in royalties and export duties alone on a yearly basis. It said control of mineral extraction by insurgent groups such as the Taliban and Daesh/ISIS as

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Posted in Economic News, UN-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Illegal Mining |
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Pakistan ‘Consolidates’ UN Sanctions Against Afghan Taliban

22nd August, 2020 · admin · 1 Comment

Ayaz Gul VOA News August 21, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has issued an order for full compliance with U.N. Security Council sanctions against Afghanistan’s Taliban and groups associated with the Islamist insurgency. The directives are contained in a “statutory notification” (SRO) that was published by the foreign ministry on its website earlier in the week

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Pakistan takeover of Afghanistan via Taliban |
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Afghanistan: More action needed to stop killings of human rights defenders

14th August, 2020 · admin · 1 Comment

UN: The death of nine human rights defenders since the beginning of this year marks “the emergence of a truly alarming trend”, an independent UN rights expert said on Friday, calling on Afghanistan to prevent any further killings. “Already by August, Afghanistan has far exceeded last year’s figures”, said Mary Lawlor, Special Rapporteur on the

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Human Rights, UN-Afghanistan Relations |
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UN Says More Than 100,000 Afghans Displaced By Conflict This Year

30th July, 2020 · admin · 1 Comment

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 30, 2020 The United Nations says that more than 100,000 people fled conflict inside Afghanistan’s borders so far this year amid continued violence, despite an agreement between the United States and the Taliban intended to pave the way for intra-Afghan peace talks. The UN Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Peace Talks, Security, Society, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Displaced, Eid |
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