DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan's State Commission for the Prevention of the Coronavirus Pandemic, headed by the Prime Minister Qohir Rasulzoda, has admitted for the first time that there are at least 15 ... Read More
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Youth in Tajikistan’s rural and most-at-risk regions along the Afghan border face greater challenges accessing employment, education, and training, thereby exposing them to relatively ... Read More
KABUL (TCA) — The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on April 29 approved a disbursement in the amount of about US$-220 million for Afghanistan under the Rapid Credit Facility. T ... Read More
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Lawmakers in Tajikistan have approved a bill banning the issuance of new identification documents and birth certificates for ethnic Tajiks containing Russified surnames, the latest at ... Read More
KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan officials say hundreds of foreign combatants are fighting alongside Taliban militants in the country’s strategic northern province, a move that if proven true would violate t ... Read More
TASHKENT (TCA) — During the total quarantine, residents of the five northern districts of Karakalpakstan have constant access to agricultural products. With the support of the United Nations Developme ... Read More
NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Kazakhstan is proceeding to a new stage in ensuring food security and price control by creating a national commodity distribution system. This was said at the government teleconfere ... Read More
ASHGABAT (TCA) — Authorities in Turkmenistan are clearing out hundreds of people held in quarantine zones in what could be an attempt to hide suspected cases of coronavirus ahead of a visit by World H ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan President Sooronbai Jeenbekov on April 28 signed a decree extending until May 10 the state of emergency in the capital, Bishkek, as well as the southern cities of Osh and Ja ... Read More
DUSHANBE (TCA) — A representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Tajikistan, where officials have not registered a single coronavirus case yet, says the Central Asian nation must be ready f ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — The European Union (EU) has stepped up its support to respond to the challenges raised by the COVID-19 outbreak in Kyrgyzstan. The EU response, made through grants amounting to more th ... Read More
NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — After Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on April 27 announced that the countrywide state of emergency over the coronavirus outbreak will be prolonged until May 11, the Stat ... Read More
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Programme Office in Dushanbe says it handed over medical and disinfection equipment to partners in the Tajik government ... Read More
NUR-SULTAN, TASHKENT (TCA) — Kazakhstan will extend the countrywide state of emergency as the nation struggles to slow down the spread of the coronavirus.
TASHKENT (TCA) — The China-Uzbekistan telemedicine system was put into operation on April 25 to help the Central Asian country's fight against COVID-19, Xinhua news agency reported with reference to t ... Read More
ASHGABAT (TCA) — Turkmenistan has marked national Horse Day, an annual holiday particularly loved by authoritarian President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, RFE/RL's Turkmen Service reported.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan has announced that it will close schools for two weeks, ban public gatherings, and temporarily halt grain exports as a precaution against the COVID-19 pandemic, RFE/RL's Ta ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Publisher’s note: Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Central Asia was the scene of intense geopolitical struggle and the Great Game between the British and Russian Empires, an ... Read More
KABUL (TCA) — Uzbekistan may stop exporting electricity to Afghanistan next month if Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), the national power distribution company, fails to pay its bill to the Uzbek ... Read More
TASHKENT (TCA) — The World Bank on April 24 approved a $-95 million financing package to support Uzbekistan’s immediate response to the impacts of COVID-19 on the health and well-being of its citizens ... Read More
