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14 March 2010 - UNAMID’s Rule of Law-Prison Advisory section, collaborating with the UNDP and the North Darfur State Prison Authority, today continued its ongoing efforts to help improve the penal system in the state with the…
A town hall meeting sponsored by the Upper Nile State Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and the state's High Committee for elections was held in Melut County for representatives of political parties and civil society on 12…
International Women's Day was observed across Sudan from 8 (the actual day) to 11 March with musical performances, poetry readings, handicraft exhibitions, seminars, speeches promoting women's rights and marches. The theme of…
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KABUL - “Come first to me,” he called out from behind a stall in chaste English. His eyes intently winnowing genuine customers from holiday crowds, unknown to the hands that carefully lined some oversized combat helmets next…
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KABUL - The River Kokcha flows northwards down the Hindu Kush, passing through Faizabad, and joins the Amu Darya river, the Oxus of history and legend. On the right hand bank of the river is one of the most extraordinary…
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KABUL - As a part of UNAMA's campaign to spread awareness about Afghanistan's rich past, Aditya Mehta spoke to UNESCO Director Shigeru Aoyagi about the agency's concerns and plans for the future. The United Nations Education…
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JALALABAD - It wasn’t just the Muslims of Jalalabad who celebrated the holy festival of Eid with pomp and jubilation in the last week of November 2009. In downtown Jalalabad, minority Hindu-Sikhs were also euphoric about the…
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WINDSOR - One belief that the Western world often held about Asia and the East was that it was a land of enormous luxury and wealth. One Western poet from the 19th century, James Elroy Flecker, summed up this view by…
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KABUL - As a part of the Mission’s campaign to raise awareness about Afghanistan’s rich past, Kabul Musuem Director Omara Khan Massoudi spoke to UNAMA on his desire to see the musuem rise from the ashes. Afghanistan has a…
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HERAT - Experts cannot state with precision when the old city of Herat was built as it stands today. Herat’s history as a human settlement dates as far back as the Iron Age, and under Alexander the Great, during pre-Islamic…
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KABUL - The history and archaeology of Afghanistan stretches back more than 40 millennia, from Palaeolithic sites where stone tools illustrate aspects of the lives of the first human settlements in Afghanistan, through to the…
In a bid to improve transportation links between different regions of the country, Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir and First Vice-President and President of the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) Salva Kiir Mayardit…