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DUSHANBE (TCA) — The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on July 18 held a ceremony to mark the handover of technical equipment to strengthen the Tajik government’s capacity to monitor disaster-prone areas and create situational maps to improve search and rescue operations during emergencies.
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OSH, Kyrgyzstan (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s second-largest city, Osh, has a new mayor after 44 of 45 members of the city council voted in favor of Taalaibek Sarybashev on July 18, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Both Russia and China have security interests in Tajikistan’s areas bordering Afghanistan, and that is being used by Dushanbe for its political goals. We are republishing this article on the issue, written by Chris Rickleton, originally published by Eurasianet:
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ASTANA (TCA) — At a meeting on July 17, the Government of Kazakhstan reviewed the progress of privatization in the country, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — An Information Resource Centre for Public Environmental Awareness and Culture and Improving People’s Ecological Knowledge was opened by the Ecological Movement of Uzbekistan, with the support of the Group of Ecological Movement Deputies within the Legislative House of Uzbekistan’s parliament, the Oliy Majlis, and the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, on 17 July in Tashkent.
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KABUL (TCA) — Officials from the British embassy and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on July 17 announced at an event in Kabul that they would provide $105 million to help educate underprivileged girls in Afghanistan, Afghan broadcaster TOLOnews reported.
