Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 15, 2016 The United Nation’s special representative for Afghanistan has said the country’s national unity government faces five hurdles this year. Nicholas Haysom told the UN Security Council on March 15 that the Kabul government must tackle a contracting economy with low growth and high unemployment, an intensifying Taliban insurgency,
Afghanistan’s U.N. ambassador has said that more Taliban should be blacklisted by the United Nations if violence by the group continues in the country. Removal from U.N. blacklist has been one of major conditions posed by Taliban for joining peace talks. However, Mahmoud Saiqal, Afghanistan’s ambassador to U.N., was not optimistic if the insurgent group would
The New Yorker: America’s war in Afghanistan, which is now in its fifteenth year, presents a mystery: how could so much money, power, and good will have achieved so little? Congress has appropriated almost eight hundred billion dollars for military operations in Afghanistan; a hundred and thirteen billion has gone to reconstruction, more than was spent
VOA News / February 14, 2016 Ayaz Gul ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – The United Nations said Sunday Afghan hostilities left more than 3,500 civilians dead and nearly 7,500 others wounded in 2015, an increase of four percent in civilian casualties from the previous year. The U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said the number of civilian casualties during
VOA News Ayaz Gul January 27, 2016 ISLAMABAD—The United Nations on Wednesday launched an appeal for $393 million in humanitarian assistance to conflict-torn Afghanistan this year to meet “the acute life-saving” needs of millions of vulnerable people across the country. Mark Bowden, the U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator, said Wednesday support related to food, health care, nutrition,
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 12, 2016 Nearly one in four children growing up in conflict zones are missing out on education, with Afghanistan among the four worst-affected countries, the United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) said on January 12. An estimated 24 million children of school age are not in school in 22 countries affected
1TV: Afghanistan fell down by two positions in 2014 to 171th from 169th a year earlier, according to the 2015 World Human Development Report released by the United Nations. Click here to read more (external link).
KABUL, 6 December 2015 – The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) condemns the recent killing of nine civilians when explosive ordinance was fired into the village of Shahi Khil in Wardak. Click here to read more (external link).
KABUL, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) — The Afghan Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in the country have launched a new five-year project, aiming to deliver improved public services, the IDLG said in a statement on Sunday. The project called, Local Governance Project-Afghanistan (LoGo), which was launched on Saturday,
VOA News Ayaz Gul November 13, 2015 ISLAMABAD—An anticipated annual winter reduction in fighting in Afghanistan has prompted international and regional partners to intensify efforts to encourage a revival of Afghan peace talks. This year’s fighting season witnessed a sharp increase in Taliban-led insurgent advances across Afghanistan since the Islamist group was ousted from power