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An Afghan school girl

UNICEF helps Afghanistan get ready for new school year

18 March 2005
As more than 4 million Afghan children prepare to return to school from next week after a particularly harsh winter, the United Nations Children’s (UNICEF) has been helping the Ministry of Education to provide basic classroom stationery and materials to schools nationwide.

$148 million needed to run Afghan parliamentary elections, UN tells donors

17 March 2005
Afghanistan's electoral authorities need some $148 million in funding to ensure that national and local parliamentary elections scheduled for later this year are conducted fairly and transparently, the United Nations has told a donor conference in the capital Kabul.

Departing UN spokesman highlights Afghanistan's progress, remaining challenges

13 March 2005
United Nations spokesman Manoel de Almeida e Silva gave his final briefing in Afghanistan today after more than three tumultuous years, highlighting some of the country's successes during his tenure there but also pointing out the remaining challenges in the rebuilding process.

After heaviest snowfalls in years in Afghanistan, UN agencies prepare for floods

10 March 2005
After the harshest winter and heaviest snowfalls in years cut off tens of thousands of Afghans from food supplies, requiring helicopter drops, United Nations agencies are now taking precautionary measures against a new threat – potential flooding from the spring thaw.
These Afghan refugees were provided temporary shelter

UN refugee agency distributes tents to thousands of flood-hit Afghans in Pakistan

8 March 2005
The United Nations refugee agency has distributed 1,000 tents to 7,300 Afghan refugees made homeless by flooding in Pakistan's Balochistan region following weeks of snow and heavy rains that sent water and mud rushing down the barren mountainsides.

UN announces end of heavy weapons collection in Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley

6 March 2005
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) today announced the completion of heavy weapons collection in the Panjshir Valley, declaring the area free of all known working or repairable forms of those arms.
Afghan people face severe food shortages

UN agency still struggling to feed Afghans hit by worst winter in years

4 March 2005
Although road clearance and air drops have sped up emergency operations in Afghanistan, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is still struggling to reach the most isolated areas in central areas, where thousands of people struck by the country’s harshest winter for years urgently need assistance.

Four international experts appointed by UN envoy to help run Afghan legislative elections

3 March 2005
The senior United Nations envoy for Afghanistan today appointed four international electoral experts to serve on the commission charged with preparing and conducting the country's national legislative and district polls scheduled for later this year.
A malnourished Afghan child

UN food agency steps up airdrops to Afghans isolated by winter snows

25 February 2005
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is stepping up airdrops in Afghanistan in collaboration with the Government and the United States-led coalition in an effort to reach tens of thousands of people isolated by snow in the harshest winter in many years in the mountainous central Asian country.
Afghan people face severe food shortages

UN uses airdrops to get food to Afghans isolated by heavy snowfalls

24 February 2005
Facing an unusually cold winter and heavy snowfalls in Afghanistan, leading to outbreaks of whooping cough, measles and pneumonia, road blockages and food shortages, United Nations agencies are using airdrops to get urgent supplies into some regions, where land convoys have been stuck for up to three weeks.