News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Social: Tens of thousands displaced as Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan conflict rages on
Around 120,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in an area of Kyrgyzstan where fierce fighting is ongoing against forces from neighboring Tajikistan, a senior Kyrgyz government official has ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Social: Kyrgyzstan Says Border With Tajikistan Can Reopen 'Gradually' After Delimitation Work
BATKEN, Kyrgyzstan -- Authorities in Kyrgyzstan’s southern region of Batken say the border with Tajikistan, shut down more than two years ago following a deadly standoff, can "gradually reopen" after ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Social: IDA Helps the Kyrgyz Republic’s Batken Rebuild after Conflict
In September 2022, conflict along the Kyrgyz Republic’s southwestern border caused significant damages to the country’s Batken region. A project supported by the International Development Association ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Social: Dozens Of Deaths Reported As Violence Erupts Along Kyrgyz-Tajik Border, Despite Cease-Fire Agreement
Dozens have been killed on both sides in border clashes between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan that involved heavy artillery along disputed areas and a reported drone attack on a village in Tajikistan. The ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Social: Social media censorship and information manipulation after Sadyr Zhaparov's rise in Kyrgyzstan
After the government announced it was giving the Kempir-Abad water reservoir to Uzbekistan in a border deal agreement between two countries, several civil society activists, ex-politicians and acting ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Social: Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan: The terror and death of a fruitless border conflict
As people in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan pray and hope that the fighting along their border is over, thoughts will turn to the damage to life and property wrought in under a week of fighting. The ...
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