Afghan

Lakhdar Brahimi

UN calls on Coalition forces in Afghanistan to learn from deaths of 15 children

11 December 2003
The senior United Nations official in Afghanistan said today he hoped lessons would be learned from the killing of 15 children in two raids by the United States-led Coalition forces in Afghanistan and “these tragic situations are not repeated.”

UN refugee agency sees no speedy return to southern and eastern Afghanistan

11 December 2003
The United Nations refugee agency said today it was continuing efforts to prepare Afghan refugees for the winter despite withdrawing international staff from southern and eastern border regions after the murder of one of its workers, but it did not see a speedy resumption of full operations without an improvement in security.
Kofi Annan

Afghanistan: the world must increase its support or risk failing, says Annan

8 December 2003
The international community must decide whether to increase its involvement in Afghanistan or risk failure, given the war-stricken country's deteriorating security situation and the intensifying attacks on United Nations staff and aid workers, Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a report to the General Assembly released today.

Afghans close to completing UN shelter scheme for returning refugees

5 December 2003
Afghans have almost completed construction of the 52,000 homes planned in a United Nations scheme to provide shelter for thousands of returning refugees, the UN’s refugee agency announced today.
Livestock market in Kabul

Afghanistan’s decimated livestock could take 10 years to regenerate – UN report

4 December 2003
Four years of drought and many years of civil strife have decimated livestock in Afghanistan, a major source of income and food for farmers and their families, and it could take up to 10 years for the animal herds to regenerate naturally, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported today.

Voter registration underway in seven cities across Afghanistan - UN

4 December 2003
Voter registration has begun in seven regional capitals across Afghanistan ahead of the country's national elections next year, according to the United Nations mission there.

Voter registration begins in eight cities across Afghanistan - UN

1 December 2003
Voter registration starts this week in eight cities across Afghanistan ahead of the country's national elections next year, according to the United Nations mission there.

UN removes some travel restrictions as ceasefire in northern Afghanistan holds

16 October 2003
A ceasefire has been maintained in the northern province of Mazar-i-Sharif and areas west where factional fighting recently took place, the troops have been withdrawn and most of a 300-strong police contingent has arrived, the United Nations said in Afghanistan today.
Amb. Heraldo Muñoz

Al-Qaida, Taliban money laundering 'more sophisticated' - UN committee chair

15 October 2003
Financial transactions of Al-Qaida and the Taliban have become more "sophisticated" to avoid detection, sometimes involving the use of a centuries-old system, according to the head of the United Nations Security Council's committee overseeing sanctions against the two groups.
Most Afghans depend on agriculture for their survival

UK to assist Hazaras in Afghanistan – UN agency

6 October 2003
The United Kingdom will give $6 million over the next four years to help some 430,000 farmers in one of the poorest regions of Afghanistan to establish and maintain a reliable system of sustainable agriculture, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced today.