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KABUL - With Abdullah Abdullah, the challenger to President Hamid Karzai in next week's run-off, withdrawing from the race, the top United Nations envoy to Afghanistan today expressed hope that the elections will be wrapped…
28 October 2009 - This is a very dark day for the UN in Afghanistan. I strongly condemn the attack this morning on a guest house here in Kabul, for which the Taliban has claimed responsibility. This brutal attack has cost the…
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30 October 2009 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed cautious optimism over the progress of democracy in Guinea Bissau, where a series of political assassinations earlier this year threatened stability in the…
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26 September 2009 - Determining who is responsible for a series of assassinations of senior political and military figures in Guinea-Bissau earlier this year is essential to consolidating the rule of law in the troubled West…
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30 October 2009 – The top United Nations peacekeeping official, Under-Secretary-General Alain Le Roy, has stressed that ending the conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region will require greater commitment and efforts by the parties…
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NEW YORK - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon led United Nations staff today in remembering the colleagues who were killed in an attack on a guest house in Kabul earlier this week and hailing all the men and women working for the…
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29 October 2009 -- Following recent clashes between the Zaghawa and Birgid tribes around Shangil Tobaya, a team led by UNAMID Deputy Sector North Commander, accompanied by UN Department for Safety and Security (UNDSS) UNAMID…
In a bid to eradicate polio from Northern and Western Bahr El-Ghazal states, thousands of children in the region were given immunization drops on 27 October. Conducted under the slogan "Give two drops today, keep polio away"…
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KABUL - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today he will ask Member States to expedite measures to strengthen security to respond to the “dramatically escalated” threat against the United Nations, as witnessed by the deadly…
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Abeche, 28 October 2009 – The government of Chad, represented by its Minister for Human Rights, Mr. Abderamane Djasnabaille, organized a two-day regional forum on human rights, from 27 to 28 October, in Abeche. MINURCAT…
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KABUL - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his top envoy in Afghanistan have strongly condemned today’s attack on a guest house in Kabul that claimed the lives of at least five staff members and injured several others, and…
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28 October 2009 -- As part of its work to support the Government of Sudan with technical advice and activities that contribute to gender mainstreaming and the implementation of fundamental policies, regulations, legislation…