Afghan

More than 400,000 Afghan refugees returned home so far this year – UN agency

26 August 2003
More than 400,000 Afghan refugees have returned home so far this year, bringing the number of returnees to more than 2.32 million since organized repatriation began in March 2002, about half the estimated total of those in Pakistan and Iran, the two principal asylum countries, the UN refugee agency announced today.
Lakhdar Brahimi

Thousands more troops needed for vital security in Afghanistan - UN envoy

13 August 2003
Speaking on a day when clashes and a bus bombing claimed dozens of lives in Afghanistan, the top United Nations envoy to that country told the Security Council today that thousands more international troops were needed to provide vital security if the political pacification process in the war-torn nation was to succeed.

UN-backed measles campaign vaccinates over 5 million Afghan children

4 August 2003
In a bid to fight the most preventable cause of death among children in Afghanistan, the country’s government, with support from two United Nations agencies, successfully vaccinated more than 5 million children during a recent month-long campaign.