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Afghanistan: UN appeals for urgent donations to make up election shortfall

11 August 2005
Just 10 days after reporting additional funding for Afghanistan’s elections, the United Nations mission said today that no further money had come in and it appealed urgently to donors to make up the nearly $20-million shortfall for holding the September poll.

As funding for Afghan elections comes in, UN mission sees no threat to polls

8 August 2005
The funding shortfall for parliamentary and provincial elections in Afghanistan has shrunk by $12 million over the past week and there is now no threat to the polls with just six weeks to go, the United Nations mission in the strife-torn country reported today.

UN Refugee agency asks Pakistan to give Afghans more time to relocate

5 August 2005
The United Nations refugee agency said today it has asked the Pakistani Government to give over 150,000 Afghan refugees being relocated enough time to choose either voluntary return to Afghanistan or relocation to a camp of their preference in Pakistan.
1.2 million girls are not attending classes

UNICEF calls for concerted action to improve Afghan women’s education, health

4 August 2005
With the deck stacked against Afghan girls from early childhood in the only country in the world where men live longer than women, the United Nations, the Government and other partners must take concerted action to improve education and health care for women, a senior UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) official said today.
Locusts are nearly invisible amid damaged foliage

UN agency helps Afghanistan clear locusts from agricultural areas

3 August 2005
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has helped Afghanistan clear locusts from cultivated areas in the agriculture-dependent country, where an explosion in numbers of the crop-devouring insects of plague proportions four years ago has posed a clear and present danger.

Afghanistan: UN warns that funding shortfall could hamper September elections

1 August 2005
With parliamentary elections in Afghanistan only seven week’s away, the United Nations mission warned today that a $31 million funding shortfall could hamper essential preparatory work and lead to a postponement, although it stressed that it expected the poll to go ahead as scheduled.