Afghan

UN Population Fund helping Afghanistan design first-ever national census

29 August 2002
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is helping the Government of Afghanistan to organize the country's first-ever national census, a UN spokesman announced today in Kabul.
Lakhdar Brahimi

Eventual probe of Afghanistan's reported mass graves must protect witnesses - UN envoy

27 August 2002
Any probe of alleged mass grave sites in northern Afghanistan must protect potential witnesses, the senior United Nations envoy to the country said today, pledging that the world body would follow-up on the issue.
Ruud Lubbers and Hamid Karzai

UN's top refugee official meets Afghan President, tours camps for displaced persons

26 August 2002
One day after meeting with the President of Afghanistan, the senior United Nations refugee official today travelled to Kandahar to assess the situation of displaced people in the southern part of the country.
Ruud Lubbers

Head of UN refugee agency to examine plight of displaced Afghans in south

23 August 2002
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Ruud Lubbers, left today for Afghanistan, where he is scheduled to look at the situation facing displaced people in the southern part of the country and the different solutions required to help the government resolve that problem.

Afghan governor agrees to place armed security outside UN offices in Ghazni

19 August 2002
The regional government in Ghazni, southwest of the Afghan capital of Kabul, has agreed to place armed security outside United Nations premises following an armed robbery last week of the UN refugee agency's office there.

Despite improved crop production, 6 million Afghans still need food aid, UN warns

16 August 2002
Despite an overall improvement in Afghanistan's crop production, some 6 million people will continue to need food assistance over the next year, United Nations relief agencies warned in a report released today.

Afghanistan: UN mission helps broker agreement between warring factions

15 August 2002
Two warring commanders in the northern part of Afghanistan, where fighting last week killed eight soldiers, have agreed to lay down their weapons under an accord brokered with the help of the United Nations Assistance Mission in the country (UNAMA).

Armed men ransack UN refugee office in Afghanistan

14 August 2002
No injuries were reported but equipment was stolen when an office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Afghanistan was attacked and looted, a UN spokesperson said today.

Afghanistan: UN Population Fund sets up mobile hospital to bolster maternity health

13 August 2002
Aiming to bolster maternity health services as refugees stream back to war-ravaged Afghanistan, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has set up an emergency mobile hospital in Kabul, a UN spokesman announced today.

Afghanistan: UN agencies, local authorities agree to relief plan for blast victims

12 August 2002
United Nations agencies and Afghan authorities have agreed to a plan to help the victims of last Friday's explosion near Jalalabad, which levelled virtually the entire neighbouring village.