DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO At least 60 people killed in militia attack in eastern DR Congo. Erikas Mwisi Kambale, Reuters: At least 60 people were killed in a militia attack early on Wednesday at a displaced persons’ camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the head of a local humanitarian group and a […]
Tag: Kyrgyzstan
The Kyrgyz Supreme Court has refused to review a major electoral fraud claim by a monitoring group, saying an official deadline to file complaints about the November 28 parliamentary election process has expired. The court’s announcement came on December 17, just hours before the final election results were about to be announced. Time’s Up: Kyrgyzstan’s […]
Kyrgyzstan has filed a lawsuit against Canada’s Centerra Gold company, accusing it of violating the rights of employees at the Kumtor gold mine, which the Canadian firm ran for many years. Kumtor officials told RFE/RL on December 16 that the lawsuit was filed over Centerra’s alleged blocking of user and administrator access to Kumtor’s computers from May […]
When Kazakh Prime Minister Askar Mamin thanked Kyrgyz cabinet chief Akylbek Japarov for the extra water Bishkek provided to Kazakhstan this summer, he had no idea how much trouble it would cause. At a December 8 meeting in Nur-Sultan, Mamin expressed gratitude for the extra liquid resource that Kyrgyzstan released from its massive Toktogul Reservoir […]
On November 28, Kyrgyzstan held early parliamentary elections, which capped a year of hectic electoral activity—inaugurated with the January presidential vote won by then–prime minister Sadyr Japarov and continued with a nationwide constitutional referendum in April. The latest elections took place within the framework of a newly amended Constitution. The single-chamber Kyrgyzstani parliament, formally known […]
A man suspected of being among several attackers of the leader of Kyrgyzstan’s opposition Ata-Meken (Homeland) political party, Omurbek Tekebaev, has been detained in the capital, Bishkek. The Bishkek city police department said on December 2 that the suspect, whose identity was not disclosed, had been arrested overnight and placed in a detention center. Suspect In Attack […]
Unknown assailants have attacked the leader of a Kyrgyz opposition party that has refused to recognize the results of a weekend parliamentary election. Ata-Meken (Homeland) leader Omurbek Tekebaev said the December 1 assault took place in the Park Hotel restaurant in Bishkek, after around 70 men wearing black clothes and face masks arrived there in several minibuses. […]
Kyrgyz opposition parties have rejected the preliminary results of the November 28 parliamentary elections, accusing the Central Election Commission (BShK) of fraud. In a press conference in Bishkek late on November 28, the leaders of four opposition parties — Ata-Meken (Fatherland), Azattyk (Liberty), Social-Democrats, and Uluttar Birimdigi (Unity of Ethnicities) — demanded that the authorities […]
The preliminary results from the November 28 parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan show good early results for pro-government parties amid a low-voter turnout in the country of some 6 million people and charges by the opposition of vote-count fraud. The elections will determine who gets the 90 seats in the unicameral parliament, down from 120 in […]
Kyrgyzstan’s State Committee for National Security (UKMK) has announced the arrest of 15 suspects in an alleged coup plot, just two days before elections in the country’s fourth major vote in a little over a year. The UKMK said the alleged plotters included lawmakers in the Jogorku Kenesh, the unicameral legislature, and former high-ranking officials […]
Security services in Kyrgyzstan say they have detained 15 “active members” of a coup plot involving lawmakers and former officials ahead of a parliamentary vote at the weekend. The detained were part of a plan to get “1,000 aggressive young people” to protest against the results of the vote, the state committee for national security […]
As a part of its Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese plans to construct a railway from Xinjiang through Kyrgyzstan to Uzbekistan and onward to Turkmenistan has been under discussion for two decades. If realized, the railway would transform the geopolitical situation in the region. This rail corridor would open new possibilities for China and the […]