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KABUL - For more than forty years, Enayatullah Siddiqi has monitored the ballet of the planes from behind the windows of the control tower at Kabul airport. For him, the history of his country is written on the milestones of…
14 May 2009 - In May 1507 during a punitive raid into the plains south of Ghazni, the future Mughal Emperor Babur, describes how he and his horsemen took a day off from slaughtering rebellious Afghan tribesmen, to have a day…
Lospalos (Timor-Leste), 14 May 2009 - Today in Lautem District the Polícia Nacional de Timor-Leste (PNTL) resumed primary policing responsibility in the first district since the establishment of UNMIT by the Security Council…
13 May 2009 - The United Nations World Food Programme is providing emergency food assistance to thousands of people in five provinces of Afghanistan. The move comes in the wake of floods which have claimed scores of lives and…
12 May 2009 - The UN’s top envoy in Afghanistan is encouraging increased support for the country from its neighbours at a major regional conference. The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan Kai Eide…
N'Djamena, 11 May 2009 - The United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT) has temporarily deployed 120 peacekeepers in the town of Koukou Angarana. The MINURCAT blue helmets will ensure the…