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Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan sign deal to end border disputes
Kyrgyzstan has received swathes of land while granting Uzbeks control over irrigation resources.
Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have agreed on a treaty that should, its signatories hope, spell an end to the recurrent territorial disputes that have pitted border communities against one another.
Violent Clashes at the Troublesome Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan Border
Last week’s violence was some of the worst the border has seen, with more than 40 killed.
Pakistan’s ‘Biggest Land Grabber’
By Nilesh Kunwar
Originally posted by Eurasia Review at: https://www.eurasiareview.com/03052021-pakistans-biggest-land-grabber-oped/
Photo: Pakistan's General Qamar Javed Bajwa
Turning the Tide on Sri Lankan Corruption
by TISrilanka (TISL) for Transparency International
Originally posted at: https://www.transparency.org/en/blog/turning-the-tide-on-sri-lankan-corruption#
By challenging favouritism in Sri Lanka’s land department, a resident is undermining public officials’ corruption that damages many people’s lives
Green Climate Fund invests $23.1 million towards building the climate resilience of Mongolian herder communities
UNDP-supported project to benefit close to one million vulnerable people in a nation where climate change is threatening natural resources and fragile ecosystems
Mongolia’s pitiless dzud
Main photo: A herder collects snow to be melted down into drinking water.
The dzud is a peculiar weather phenomenon unique to Mongolia in which every few years a summer drought combines with a harsh winter. Nomadic herders can only despair as piles of dead, frozen sheep and goats stack up across the steppes, dead from either starvation or the cold. It is not uncommon to see a frozen animal dead on its feet.
China builds coal power plant in Bangladesh despite protests
Local people evicted and livelihoods at risk in Barguna district, as civil society group warns plant will damage important hilsa fish populations.
A Chinese-backed coal power plant is being built in Bangladesh allegedly by evicting locals from their land and grabbing a riverbed.