Afghan

Afghans who returned to their village in Deh Sabz from Pakistan, receive food supplies of fortified wheat flour, pulses, vegetable oil and salt from WFP.
WFP/Wahidullah Amani

Afghanistan: UN launches nine-month operation to assist returnees with emergency food and cash

15 November 2016
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a nine-month operation to assist Afghanistan in dealing with the growing numbers of returnees from Pakistan, as well as and internally displaced people, by providing emergency food and funds.
Photo: UNAMA/Fardin Waezi
UNAMA/Fardin Waezi

UN mission in Afghanistan condemns deadly attack near German consulate in Mazar

11 November 2016
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has condemned last night’s attack, for which the Taliban has claimed responsibility, against civilians in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, which killed four people and wounded more than 120 others.
War-affected Kunduz civilians receive humanitarian assistance.
UNAMA/Shamsuddin Hamedi

Afghanistan: UN Mission probing air strikes that allegedly killed 32 civilians in Kunduz

7 November 2016
The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has said that it is currently investigating allegations that at least 32 civilians were killed and a further 19 injured in airstrikes in Kunduz city, which is in the north of the country, last Thursday.
In Kunduz, Afghanistan, about 2500 families displaced by conflict, receive humanitarian assistance from various agencies.
OCHA/Mohammad Sadiq Zaheer

Afghanistan: International support to Kunduz remains essential, says UN Mission

2 November 2016
The United Nations will do everything in its power to support the people of Kunduz in, the political chief of UN mission in Afghanistan told Government officials, civil society and media professionals in the restive northern province, where the security situation has remained tense since the provincial capital was briefly overtaken by the Taliban in late 2015 and was attacked again in October this year.