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KABUL - A long-serving member of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) team in Afghanistan, Mr Abdul Wali Modadiq, has been appointed the Deputy Director-General of Afghanistan's National Environmental Protection…
My name is Mohammad Sarhan and I was born in 1962 in the occupied territories of Palestine. I was born a refugee and was raised in Al Farah Refugee Camp in Nablus. During my childhood years, I was injected with what was…
01 November 2011 - UNAMID in collaboration with the North Darfur Committee on Women organized today an open day session on the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security in Saraf Umra, North Darfur. The…
At a press conference in Nairobi, Special Representative Augustine P. Mahiga briefed on the continuing progress of the implementation of the Roadmap, the Kenyan military operation in Somalia, the security situation in…
28 October 2011 – The first batch of demobilized children who had served in South Sudanese rebel militia groups were airlifted today from Western Bahr El-Ghazal to Unity State to reunite with their families. The 20 children…
New York, 31 October 2011: The Security Council calls upon the Libyan authorities to take all necessary steps to prevent the proliferation of all arms and related materiel of all types to ensure their proper custody, as well…
KABUL - The United Nations projects that the world population will reach 7 billion today. This global milestone is both a great opportunity and a great challenge. The challenges confronting humanity as the world’s population…
(UNIFIL Press Statement on Tripartite Meeting, 31 October 2011) The Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), Major-General Alberto Asarta Cuevas, today chaired a tripartite meeting with senior…
31 October 2011 - On 30 October, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Hervé Ladsous, announced the start of three Quick Impact Projects (QIP) in Shangil Tobaya, North Darfur. The projects…
KABUL - The United Nations projects that the world population will reach 7 billion today. This global milestone is both a great opportunity and a great challenge. Dari - Pashto The challenges confronting humanity as the world…
As the world receives the birth of its 7 billionth person, three babies, among them twins, were also born on 31 October in El Fasher Women’s Hospital, North Darfur, Sudan. At 1130, Nahla Mohammed Ahmed, 21, saw her first son…
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27 October 2011 - Against the backdrop of West Africa as one of the major gateways for cocaine moving from South America into Europe, UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov today arrived in Guinea-Bissau, accompanied by the…