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KABUL - UN envoy Kai Eide has visited one of the polling stations in Kabul at the Zarghona High School in the Qala-i-Fatullah area of the city. Pictures of the SRSG at the polling station During the visit, Mr Eide said: “I am…
20 August 2009 - 12:05 am: The UN’s top envoy in Afghanistan has just visited a polling station in Kabul. Kai Eide encouraged voters at the Zarghona High School. Check all the latest photos from today here
20 August 2009 - 12:02 pm: The people of Afghanistan have begun voting in a historic Presidential election, the first ever organised by Afghan authorities. With polls opening at 7 am across over 27,000 polling stations…
20 August 2009 - 11:03 am: Polling is underway in all four provinces of eastern Afghanistan peacefully. However, some polling centres couldn’t open in a few insecure districts of Nuristan province. Election observers – both…
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Abidjan, 17 August 2009... The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Côte d'Ivoire, Y. J. Choi, on Saturday, 15 August 2009, in Abidjan, presided over a medal parade ceremony for peacekeepers from United…
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Séguéla, 19 August 2009... The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, Y. J. Choi arrived in Séguéla on Wednesday, 19 August 2009, for the second leg of his mission to the interior of the country…
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Séguéla, 19 August 2009...Without the participation of Ivorian women, the crisis-resolution process will never end, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire, Y.J. Choi, declared in Séguéla on…
20 August 2009 09:43 am - Afghans, young and old, male and female are queuing up outside polling stations across the country to cast their votes. Queues are building with reports in from Kabul, Herat and Dai Kundi out side…
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KABUL - The top candidates in Thursday's presidential elections in Afghanistan have voted early, in an effort to motivate the electorate to show up at the polls. Incumbent president and front-runner Hamid Karzai was the first…
20 August 2009 - 09:30 am: People started to queue early this morning in Afghanistan's capital city, Kabul.
20 August 2009 - 08:59 am: UNAMA's media summary from the main Afghan TV news last night is now available. A media blackout on election campaign reporting was in place. Noorin TV Headlines Three Taliban attacked a bank in…
20 August 2009 - 08:45 am: People in Mazar started to reach the polling stations from 06:45 am. After 30 minutes of delay due to the late positioning of the local observers the first voters started to use their democratic…