A United Nations human rights expert is set to undertake a fact-finding mission later this month to look into extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions in Afghanistan, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights announced today.
Factional fighting centred in northern Afghanistan has ended early this morning, according to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), which participated in talks to help bring about the ceasefire.
Afghanistan rolled out a new currency today, which the United Nations mission in the country hailed as another milestone in the transition process and an investment in the future and security of the war-torn nation.
