Two months after the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) launched an assistance programme for returning Afghans, more than 400,000 people have travelled home to Afghanistan, the agency reported today.
United Nations and other humanitarian agencies have continued to deliver relief supplies to a flood-stricken province in northwest Afghanistan, a spokesman for the UN Assistance Mission (UNAMA) said today in Kabul.
Responding to the second flash flood to hit northern Afghanistan over the past two weeks, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced that it had sent 9 tons of food aid to some 2,000 people affected by the disaster.
More than 320,000 Afghans have returned home from neighbouring countries in less than two months, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which assists with the repatriation effort.
The international community has done much more, much quicker in helping Afghanistan with development and humanitarian activities than it was thought possible a year ago, according to the head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The United Nations top envoy for Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, was one of the first to greet former King Mohammad Zahir Shah on his return to Kabul from exile, a UN spokesman said today in New York.
Saying it would be a “shame” to slow down efforts to repatriate Afghans to their home country, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today called on donors to fund the agency’s multi-million dollar programme for Afghanistan.
The Chairman of Afghanistan's Interim Administration has arrived in Rome to accompany the country's former King back from exile, the United Nations reported today.
Lakhdar Brahimi, the head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), today hailed the start of the election process for the emergency Loya Jirga, a tribal council which is set to play a central role in the country's political transition.
A team of United Nations experts rushed to remote villages in Afghanistan, where an earthquake today killed over two dozen people and injured scores of others.
