Returning to the Afghan capital from a visit to the cities of Herat and Kandahar, Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations top envoy in the country, said today that he had seen much that gave cause for optimism on his trip outside Kabul.
In the Afghan capital, Kabul, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced today said it plans to employ some 3,500 women bakers to ensure that more than a quarter of a million Afghan schoolchildren are fed over the school year.
With a number of countries recently stepping up with more contributions, a United Nations fund set up to support the interim government of Afghanistan has received more than half of the $50 million needed, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) said today.
Lakhdar Brahimi, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, travelled to the city of Herat in the east of Afghanistan today for a series of meetings with local officials.
More than 3,000 unskilled workers – including women – have been recruited by the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements and municipal authorities to clean up the Afghan capital, Kabul, and other urban centres.
The United Nations food agency today warned that southern Afghanistan is poised to face more drought, which has already ravaged the war-shattered nation.
Holding its first-ever meeting in Afghanistan, a group comprising the country’s neighbours and other influential States today voiced its full backing for the Afghan peace process while urging other members of the international community to support reconstruction in the war-torn nation.
The United Nations envoy in Afghanistan voiced his sorrow today over a fatal munitions accident yesterday that had killed five international peacekeepers.
A consultation among Afghan women from across the country is 'proceeding well' as they work to draft an agenda for action to be presented to officials during Friday's commemoration in Kabul of International Women's Day, according to a United Nations spokesperson.
