Following a brutal attack that left two female electoral workers dead in Afghanistan on Saturday, the top United Nations envoy to the country today pledged to press on with preparations for balloting in the war-ravaged country.
The senior United Nations envoy in Afghanistan today voiced profound outrage at a deadly attack against electoral workers which left two women killed on the outskirts of Jalalabad.
Unveiling figures showing that it delivered supplies to 2.1 million people across Afghanistan in the first quarter of this year, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today that the country remains heavily dependent on food aid.
Voicing concern over the volatile security situation in Afghanistan, the top United Nations envoy to the country today urged NATO to consider the importance of stability there, especially in the run-up to planned elections later this year.
Almost four million people have now registered to vote in Afghanistan’s presidential and parliamentary elections later this year, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) announced today.
Declaring the fight against terrorism to be a priority for Afghanistan, the country’s leaders have the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to help it draft domestic laws against terrorism and international organized crime.
More than 3.5 million Afghans have registered to vote, nearly 35 per cent of them women, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has reported.
United Nations officials joined members of the Security Council today in strongly condemning the killing of 11 construction workers from China and their local guard during an attack on their compound last night in Afghanistan.
A convoy of United Nations and Afghan electoral workers was attacked yesterday while travelling in southern Afghanistan, but no one in the group appears to have been hurt, a UN spokesman announced today.
