DUSHANBE (TCA) — To ensure access to electricity for vulnerable communities in Tajikistan’s remotest regions along the western foothills of the Himalayas, the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved the financing of $31.7 million for the Tajikistan Rural Electrification Project (TREP). The financing has been provided from the International Development Association’s (IDA) pilot Risk Mitigation Regime, the World Bank said.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyz Minister of Health Kosmosbek Cholponbaev and USAID Mission Director Gary Linden have cemented collaboration between the United States and the Kyrgyz Republic in combating Tuberculosis (TB), an infectious disease that kills about 500 Kyrgyzstanis annually. A newly-signed Statement of Partnership between the Kyrgyz Republic and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) commits both sides to meeting national level targets in the fight against TB, the US Embassy in Kyrgyzstan said.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Authorities in Kyrgyzstan have issued an arrest warrant in absentia for the former secretary of the country’s Defense Council, Busurmankul Tabaldiev, on corruption charges.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — A presentation of projects of construction of nine new hotels which will be built in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, was held last week with the participation of the President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon and the Dushanbe Chairman Rustam Emomali, the presidential press service reported.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — The 21st annual OSCE Central Asia Media Conference, focusing on media freedom and pluralism in times of digital transformation, will be held in Bishkek on 17-18 July.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — A 30-year literature review on suicide in Central Asia was presented at a Public Lecture organised by the University of Central Asia’s Cultural Heritage and Humanities Unit in Dushanbe (Tajikistan) earlier this month. The lecture on Suicide in Central Asia: A Systematic Study of Risk and Protective Factors was delivered by Shahnaz Savani, Lecturer of Social Work at the University of Houston-Downtown (USA).

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