ASTANA (TCA) — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is teaming up with a new investor in Kazakhstan’s renewable energy sector, Joachim Goldbeck Holding GmbH, to construct a new 100MW solar plant in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan, a regional leader in solar power generation. Loan and project support agreements were signed on November 28 in Astana for the largest solar power plant built at one time in Central Asia, the EBRD said.

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ASTANA (TCA) — The jailed former president of Kazakhstan’s uranium giant Kazatomprom, Mukhtar Dzhakishev, has been denied early release, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reports.

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KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani says his government has formed a 12-strong negotiating team to seek a peace agreement with the Taliban, as he laid out what he called a “roadmap” for the talks, RFE/RL reported.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged countries to fund a new initiative designed to reduce vulnerability, advance sustainable development and create decent living conditions for millions of people living around the Aral Sea, whose basin encompasses Uzbekistan, and six other countries in Central Asia, the UN News portal reported on November 27.

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KABUL (TCA) — The European Union has announced 474 million euros ($535 million) in financial aid for Afghanistan as international donors gathered for a UN-backed conference focusing on development, peace, and security in the country, RFE/RL reported.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s lawmakers have given preliminary approval to a bill that would eliminate immunity for ex-presidents, potentially opening the path for the prosecution of the country’s ex-President Almazbek Atambayev, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported.

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