The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today said it would launch a $285 million programme to provide immediate relief as well as support for the long-term rehabilitation and reconstruction of Afghanistan following three years of crippling drought and 23 years of devastating conflict.
The United Nations has brokered a ceasefire agreement between feuding factions in the northern part of Afghanistan, a UN spokesman said today in New York.
Afghans made up the largest percentage of the more than half a million people who applied for asylum last year in 27 industrialized countries, according to a new report released today by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
