Kabul

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (centre) speaks to hospital staff at the Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan National Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan.
WHO/Lindsay Mackenzie

Afghanistan’s healthcare system on brink of collapse, as hunger hits 95 per cent of families

22 September 2021
Humanitarian Aid

Afghanistan’s health system is on the brink of collapse, the head of the World Health Organisation, WHO, warned on Wednesday, while on the streets of Kabul, the hunger families are suffering is as acute in urban areas as the drought-stricken rural parts of the country. 

A view of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.
Photo UNAMA/Fardin Waezi

Afghanistan: UN chief condemns terrorist blasts near Kabul airport

26 August 2021
Peace and Security

Secretary-General António Guterres condemned on Thursday the terror attacks around Kabul airport in Afghanistan and expressed his support for both the injured and the families of those who have been killed. 

A view of Kabul, the centre of Afghanistan’s social and political life. Photo UNAMA/Fardin Waezi.

Outrage and ‘revulsion’ voiced by UN over suicide attack on voter registration centre in Kabul

22 April 2018
Peace and Security

A suicide attack on a voter-registration centre in the Afghan capital Kabul which left at least 30 dead on Sunday, has been condemned by the United Nations mission in the country, UNAMA.