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JALAL-ABAD, Kyrgyzstan, June 24 (UNHCR) - Sixty-year-old grandmother Mavludahon spent months putting aside wheat and other food for her son's wedding in the autumn. But over the past two weeks, she ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Jalal-Abad » People: Kyrgyzstan Detains 6 People Suspected Of Desecrating National Flag
Kyrgyzstan's State Committee for National Security (UKMK) said on June 5 that it has detained six people, including two teenaged girls, in the southern region of Jalal-Abad for allegedly desecrating ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Jalal-Abad » People: Bakiyev backers upstage Uzbek opponents in Kyrgyzstan
JALALABAD, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) - Impassioned supporters of ousted Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev upstaged a rally on Wednesday by mostly ethnic Uzbek opponents in his southern power base. Bakiyev ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Jalal-Abad » People: Uzbeks and Kyrgyz come together to commit to reconciliation
Jalalabad, July 8 (UNHCR) - More than six hundred people gathered in a mosque near the city of Jalalabad in southern Kyrgyzstan Wednesday in an effort to promote reconciliation between Uzbek and ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Jalal-Abad » People: Number of people injured in Kyrgyz truck hit-and-run up to 35
BISHKEK, May 3. /TASS/. The number of children injured in a hit-and-run truck accident in the Suzak district of Kyrgyzstan’s Jalal-Abad Region has risen to 35, the country’s Health Ministry reported. ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Jalal-Abad » People: Victims Of 2010 Ethnic Clashes Commemorated In Kyrgyzstan
Local residents and officials in Kyrgyzstan's southern Jalal-Abad region have commemorated victims of deadly clashes between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in June 2010. The commemoration event was held on June 13 ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Jalal-Abad » People: Preserving relationships: How jam is helping older people in Kyrgyzstan
In June this year, around 1 million people were affected by violence in Kyrgyzstan, in particular in Osh and Jalal-Abad in the south west of the country. Since then, we have carried out a range of ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Jalal-Abad » People: UNHCR shelter programme helps displaced in southern Kyrgyzstan
JALALABAD, Kyrgyzstan, November 22 (UNHCR) - Five months ago, Gulmira* watched her life go up in flames after a group of armed men looted her belongings and torched the house she and her husband had ...