No injuries were reported but equipment was stolen when an office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Afghanistan was attacked and looted, a UN spokesperson said today.
Aiming to bolster maternity health services as refugees stream back to war-ravaged Afghanistan, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has set up an emergency mobile hospital in Kabul, a UN spokesman announced today.
United Nations agencies and Afghan authorities have agreed to a plan to help the victims of last Friday's explosion near Jalalabad, which levelled virtually the entire neighbouring village.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said it was alarmed at the sudden increase in the number of Afghans returning from Iran, which the agency attributed to “induced” pressure by authorities there.
The Government of Iran has granted the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) access to Afghan detainees threatened with deportation, the agency announced in Geneva today.
An explosion rocked a building near Jalalabad city, killing several people, leaving dozens of others injured and over 100 homes destroyed, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) reported today.
The head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Lakhdar Brahimi, has toured Bamiyan, a poverty-hit region where the international community seeks to expand its outreach, a UNAMA spokesman reported today.
With the number of Afghans returning from Pakistan decreasing, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today announced plans to cut back its operations in the country.
One of the best ways to secure a more promising future for war-ravaged Afghanistan is through a major investment in its youth, the United Nations envoy for war-affected children said today in New York.
The first attack against United Nations premises in Afghanistan since last year's Bonn Agreement paved the way for an expanded international presence in the country has prompted local authorities to post armed guards outside all UN premises in Kandahar, a spokesman for the world body reported today.
