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Surveyors of the northern region of Afghanistan undergoing training for the Opium Winter Rapid Assessment Survey

Opium cultivation in Afghanistan expected to fall despite high prices – UN

18 April 2011
Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is expected to decline slightly this year despite the prevailing high prices of opium, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported today, saying that Government effort to discourage production could yield further reduction.
On average, WFP distributes food to 7.3 million people in Afghanistan yearly, mainly in remote, rural areas

Lack of funds threatens UN food aid to millions of vulnerable Afghans

15 April 2011
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today it urgently needs $257 million to continue providing food and assistance to over 7 million vulnerable Afghans, most of whom are women and children.
UN Mission holds memorial ceremony for staff killed in the 1 April 2011 attack in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, UN staff remember the ‘quiet heroes’ killed in mob attack

5 April 2011
In a solemn ceremony held in Kabul and repeated at each of the 22 regional and provincial United Nations offices across Afghanistan, UN staff paid tribute today to the colleagues who lost their lives on Friday when they were killed by a mob of protesters that had stormed an operations centre.
A scene from the protests that took place at the UN mission in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan.

Ban talks by phone with Afghan president following deadly attack against UN staff

2 April 2011
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today spoke by telephone with the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai and expressed his sadness and shock to the head of State at the attack on the United Nations offices in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif that resulted in the death of three UN staff and four security guards.
Flag-draped coffin of staff member killed in attack on UN compound in northern Afghanistan arrives in Kabul

Ban sends condolences to countries whose citizens died in Afghan attack

2 April 2011
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today spoke by telephone to senior officials of the governments of Nepal, Norway, Sweden and Romania to express his deep condolences following the deaths of their citizens in the attack on the United Nations compound in northern Afghanistan yesterday.
A scene from the protests that took place at the UN mission in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan.

UN strongly condemns deadly attack against staff in Afghanistan

1 April 2011
The Security Council and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon have strongly condemned today’s attack in Afghanistan in which a large crowd of demonstrators angry at the burning of a copy of the Koran by a United States group stormed a United Nations compound and killed a number of people, including three UN staff members.