Afghanistan

Afghan journalist Sabawoon Kakar, a Radio Azadi reporter, is laid to rest following a suicide attack in Kabul that killed Kakar along with eight other journalists on 30 April 2018.
UNAMA/Fardin Waezi

Afghanistan: UN mission condemns deadly attack near Kabul airport

23 July 2018
Peace and Security

The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has condemned Sunday’s terrorist attack outside Kabul’s airport that reportedly killed and injured scores of civilians.

Funeral of civilian killed in a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, June 2018. The UN mission in the country has reported that a record number of Afghan civilians were killed by warring parties in the first half of 2018.
Fardin Waezi/UNAMA

Civilian deaths in Afghanistan hit record high – UN

15 July 2018
Peace and Security

The number of civilians killed in Afghanistan hit a record high in the first half of the year, despite last month’s unprecedented ceasefire between the Afghan Government and the Taliban, the United Nations reported on Sunday.

Headquarters of the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan.
UNAMA/Fardin Waezi

Afghanistan: Bring ‘architects’ of latest ‘appalling’ suicide bombing to justice, says deputy UN mission chief

2 July 2018
Peace and Security

In the wake of dozens of civilian deaths – the most recent, a suicide attack in Jalalabad on Sunday – a high-level United Nations representative on the ground called for “the architects of this appalling crime” to be brought to justice.

Tadamichi Yamamoto (third from right), Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), and UNAMA Human Rights Chief Danielle Bell host women’s rights activists to discuss women’s access to justice in the country, 30 May 2018.
UNAMA/Fardin Waezi

UN official sees ‘unprecedented opportunities’ to make progress on peace in Afghanistan

26 June 2018
Peace and Security

The coming months will present critical opportunities for the international community to review assistance to Afghanistan, as the country works towards a lasting peace, stable democracy and self-reliance, the top United Nations official there told the Security Council in New York on Tuesday.

Tadamichi Yamamoto, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), briefs the Security Council on the situation in Afghanistan.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

Afghanistan ceasefires show peace is possible: UN mission chief

26 June 2018
Interviews

The ceasefires earlier this month in Afghanistan conducted by the government and the Taliban extremist group are a signal that peace is possible in the war-weary country.

That’s the assessment of Tadamichi Yamamoto, head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), who briefed the Security Council this week.

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Secretariat Building at United Nations Headquarters
UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

Afghanistan extends ceasefire with Taliban; UN urges both sides to work towards lasting peace

16 June 2018
Peace and Security

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and the UN mission in Afghanistan welcomed on Saturday the Afghan Government’s extension of the unilateral ceasefire with the Taliban, amid an outpouring of support for the truce from war-weary people all across the country.

Farhad Majidi, the owner of the fast-food 50/50 restaurant.
UNAMA/Fraidoon Poya

LETTER FROM AFGHANISTAN: Elections serve up food for thought, for Afghan youth

14 June 2018
Peace and Security

By Philip Smucker

 


At the newly-established “50/50” fast food restaurant on the tree-lined streets of Herat, in the west of Afghanistan, business is brisk as deliveries are whisked away, on the back of motorbikes to hungry customers across the ancient city. 

Tadamichi Yamamoto, Secretary-General’s Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). (file)
UNAMA/Najib Haidary

Afghanistan: UN envoy urges further extension of ceasefire with Taliban, as Eid ul-Fitr gets underway

14 June 2018
Peace and Security

Expressing solidarity with the people of Afghanistan, the United Nations envoy in the country has expressed hope that the temporary ceasefires marking the final days of the holy month of Ramadan in the war-battered nation, will lead to the lasting peace that Afghans so badly “want and deserve.”

Secretary-General António Guterres.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

UN chief welcomes Taliban’s temporary truce announcement, encourages all parties to embrace 'Afghan-owned peace'

9 June 2018
Peace and Security

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed the Taliban’s announcement of a three-day partial ceasefire during the Eid al-Fitr holiday, urging all parties concerned “to seize this opportunity and embrace an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process.”

Secretariat Building at United Nations Headquarters
UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

UN welcomes temporary ceasefire announcement by Afghan Government; urges Taliban to reciprocate

7 June 2018
Peace and Security

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed the week-long ceasefire announced by the Government of Afghanistan with the Taliban and called on the militant group to reciprocate the temporary pause.