28 February 2013 – Japan gave US$ 281 million in aid today to the United Nations funds in Afghanistan. The announcement was made at a signing ceremony that took place at the Serena Hotel in Kabul. The funds will support 14 projects being carried out by nine UN funds, programmes and agencies.
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28 February 2013 – A delegation from the Attorney General’s Office is currently visiting Kandahar to investigate and assess conditions of detention facilities in the province, said a press release issued by the Kandahar Governor's office yesterday.
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KABUL, 26 February 2013 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is deeply concerned by the ongoing sectarian violence in Pakistan. On 17 February, in his second statement on the issue this year, the Secretary-General strongly condemned the terrorist attack carried out on 16 February in Quetta that targeted the Shi’a Hazara community resulting in more than 80 persons killed and nearly 200 wounded, many of them women and children.
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26 February 2013 – Ján Kubiš, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Afghanistan, said in Kabul yesterday that the UNAMA would fully back a nationwide initiative of the country’s taekwondo star to promote peace and unity.
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KABUL, 25 February 2013 – The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) acknowledges the Taliban’s “Open Letter”, publicly issued on 22 February 2013, in reaction to UNAMA’s Annual Report on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict for 2012. Click here to download the full report.
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28 February 2013 - Four civilians injured in Wednesday’s suicide attack in Kabul – Defence Ministry; ISAF admits error in its report on number of insurgent attacks during 2012; IEC sends list of 7,000 polling stations to security agencies; The Taliban kills 16 people in Ghazni; A man executes his wife in Ghor; Karzai meets top NATO commander on Maidan Wardak situation; Access to vulnerable people gets more difficult in Afghanistan – ICRC. Read archived headlines
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21 February 2013 - The Mayor of Kabul City, Mohammad Yunus Nawandish, said yesterday that construction and rehabilitation of road and footpath was the top priority of the Kabul Municipality and during year 1391 (2012-2013) a total of 42.1 kilometres of road and 106,299 square metres of footpath were constructed.
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19 February 2013 – The number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan’s armed conflict dropped for the first time since the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) started documenting the trend in 2007, said a UN report released in Kabul today.
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KABUL, 19 February 2013 - Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Ján Kubiš, today received a high-level delegation from the Cooperation Council of Political Parties and Coalitions of Afghanistan.
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18 February 2013 - To capitalize the shared humanity and to spread the message of oneness and peace, over 10,000 pink balloons will be distributed to the people of Kabul in the spring of this year.
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