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1 October 2013 - Aiming to promote free and independent media in South Sudan, UNMISS held a one-day training workshop for officials from Central Equatoria State government ministries in Juba today. Working on the grounds that…
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KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) registered a 16 per cent rise in the number of Afghan civilians killed or wounded during the first eight months of this year compared to the same period…
On Friday 20 September 2013, UNIFIL organized a ceremony to donate medical assistance kits to the Social Development Center of Bint Jbeil. The donation included 11 wheelchairs and 13 crutches, among other needed equipment…
Wearing their glowing orange protective gear and brandishing black gas masks, 19 Libyan Air Defence personnel immediately got down to business, displaying their newly acquired skills about how to deal with a crisis resulting…
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KABUL - Over 200 Afghan journalists, who gathered in the capital, Kabul, this week for the first-ever national congress of one of the country’s leading journalists’ association, vowed to cover next year’s Presidential and…
More than 100 Darfuri tribal leaders from all tribes in North Darfur and the native administrations participated in a two–day conference to discuss the root causes of tribal conflicts in Darfur and to propose possible…
KABUL - Noting that poverty is a “fertile ground for violence and crime” and the United Nations is setting a new development agenda with “poverty at its core,” the world body’s head today called on global citizens to be…
The United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) on Tuesday, 1 October 2013, donated school kits provided by peacekeepers from the 18th Contingent of the Moroccan Battalion (MORBATT) based Duékoué to pupils at the public…
The people of Nanandi, 484 km north-west of Abidjan on Monday 30 September welcomed a UN campaign team dubbed ONUCI Tour and national security agents that had come to talk with them about development and the need to maintain…
The initiative left elated guards at the Zwedru National Palace of Corrections (NPC) asking for more when a combined team of facilitators from UNMIL and the County administration took them through a short but incisive course…
A UNAMID Police Advisor from Sierra Leone who was seriously injured on 13 July when a patrol came under attack in Khor Abeche, South Darfur, died in the hospital on 30 September. The incident took place approximately 25…
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KABUL - An international film festival kicks off in the Afghan cities of Kabul and Bamyan next week, with the aim of highlighting to audiences human rights issues and advocating against social inequality, injustice…