Afghanistan

Women carry bundles through a neighbourhood of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.
World Bank/Ghullam Abbas Farzami

Time running out to prevent ‘worst case scenario’ arising in Afghanistan

22 June 2021
Peace and Security

With all the major indicators for Afghanistan’s security and development looking “negative or stagnant” as international troops withdraw, the threats that lie ahead cannot be overstated, the top UN official in the country told the Security Council on Tuesday. 

A UN-supported polio worker in Afghanistan administers a polio vaccine to a young child (file).
UNICEF Afghanistan/Celeste Hibbe

Five polio vaccination workers shot dead in Afghanistan; UN condemns ‘brutal’ killings

15 June 2021
Peace and Security

Five health workers carrying out a polio vaccination campaign in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province were killed on Tuesday, and four others injured, during a series of attacks condemned by a senior UN official on the ground as brutal and “senseless”.

An explosives specialist conducts mine clearance operations after detecting a piece of metal in Afghanistan, where 2,300 casualties as a result of landmines were reported in 2017 alone.
UNMAS/Cengiz Yar

Afghanistan: UN condemns ‘horrendous attack’ on demining partner HALO Trust

9 June 2021
Peace and Security

The United Nations on Wednesday called for an investigation into the deadly attack in northern Afghanistan against the HALO Trust, a humanitarian group working to rid the country of landmines. In a statement issued on Friday, the UN Security Council described the attack as "atrocious and cowardly", underlining the need to hold the terrorist perpetrators to account.