Responding to the concerns of the local community in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, a United Nations team has been dispatched to the site of suspected mass graves in the area, according to a UN spokesman in the country.
The apparent return of relative stability to parts of Afghanistan is masking unrest among former fighters, a senior United Nations official told the Security Council today, urging international support for demobilization programmes in the country.
Afghanistan’s interim government today informed the United Nations that it was launching a probe into the killing of its Air Transport and Tourism minister in an attack at Kabul airport on Thursday.
As donors gear up for a conference in Tokyo next week on Afghanistan’s long-term needs, United Nations officials today urged funding to address the country’s immediate and practical concerns.
Improved security has facilitated the United Nations relief effort in Afghanistan, but relief workers must clear accumulating snow in order to deliver aid to parts of the war-ravaged country, UN officials said today.
The reconstruction of Afghanistan is expected to cost about $15 billion over the next decade, according to a preliminary report released today by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.
Deteriorating conditions in eastern Afghanistan are pushing more Afghans to flee towards Pakistan, a spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported today.
