Kandahar, a city in the troubled southern region of Afghanistan, has seen modest improvements in its security situation, United Nations relief officials said today.
The head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) arrived in Kabul today for a three-day visit to Afghanistan to review the agency's relief operations in a country devastated by years of war and drought.
Despite continued insecurity in rural areas of Afghanistan, the United Nations now has more than 100 international aid workers inside the country at each of its regional offices, UN officials said today.
Gunmen have attacked a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) convoy in northern Afghanistan, taking the relief aid and beating the drivers, a spokesman for the agency said today.
Responding to media reports about acute food shortages in Afghanistan's Zarah District, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced that two of its staff members had travelled to the area to begin addressing the situation.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today expressed concern again for the safety of its staff after shooting broke out in villages next to one of its camps in Pakistan, which left one person dead and two others injured.
As part of its continuing operations to provide emergency relief to Afghanistan while supporting the country’s rehabilitation, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced that its distribution of relief supplies in the northeast is designed to encourage girls to return to school.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has opened its fourth office in Afghanistan in an effort to improve its capacity to monitor the movements of returning Afghans and distribute relief aid.
