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4 April 2010 - The United Nations Environment Programme in Afghanistan has been honoured with one of the country’s highest awards. President Hamid Karzai has awarded the Order of Malalai to UNEP’s Country Director Belinda…
NEW YORK - A UN survey says that Afghanistan, the world's biggest producer of opium, is now also the global leader when it comes to the production of hashish.
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1 April 2010 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged the military and political leadership of Guinea-Bissau to resolve their differences peacefully and to maintain constitutional order and the rule of law, after military…
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan SG: Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. It is a great pleasure for me to have a brief press stakeout and I am very pleased to visit Central Asia, starting from Turkmenistan. I am very impressed by what…
1 April 2010 - The traditional annual “Narinj Gul” or Orange Blossom Festival has been marked in Jalalabad today. More than ten thousand people joined the event which has celebrated Afghan poetry and writing for more than 60…
KABUL - Today UNODC releases its first-ever Afghanistan Cannabis Survey showing that the world’s biggest producer of opium is also a major producer of cannabis. Full report Way down from the earlier figure of 70,000 hectares…
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31 March 2010 - Yesterday marked the conclusion of a two-day forum on Early Recovery in El Fasher, North Darfur, which brought together around 40 representatives of various stakeholders, including UNAMID and humanitarian aid…