Afghanistan

Nouvelles du front

7 May 2005: Letter from Kabul
Edward Carwardine is UNICEF's Communication Officer in Afghanistan. He recently visited two very different UNICEF-sponsored schools on a trip through Afghanistan. The following is a Frontline Diary from his trip.

15 décembre 2004 : Réflexions sur les progrès en faveur des enfants d'Afghanistan
KABOUL, 15 décembre 2004 - L'hiver s'est installé ici, à Kaboul. Les dernières fleurs sont tombées des rosiers du jardin et les vignes grimpantes qui ornent les murs de notre résidence sont entrées en hibernation. Cette année, l'hiver est arrivé plus tôt que d'habitude - indiquant ainsi qu'il pourrait être plus long et plus froid que l'an dernier.

8 October 2004: On the eve of a historic presidential election
Edward Carwardine is UNICEF's Communication Officer in Afghanistan. The following are his personal observations on the eve of Afghanistan's first democratic election after the fall of the Taliban.

4 September 2004: Attacks on children's schools violate 'zones of peace'
It has been a tragic week for children. Last Friday at the UNICEF office we watched, with growing dismay, scenes from the captured school in Beslan that filled our television screen. We realized that there would not be a happy outcome to this terrible siege.

19 June 2004: UNICEF and the Ministry of Information and Culture host a three-day workshop on "Children and the Media
There was a noticeable 'driving' motif to reconstruction here in Kabul in the last few weeks. Two weeks ago, the first traffic lights came back into working order at the main intersections.

30 May 2004: Afghanistan after the war
There was a noticeable 'driving' motif to reconstruction here in Kabul in the last few weeks. Two weeks ago, the first traffic lights came back into working order at the main intersections.