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2 weeks ago | 
globalvoices.org | Arzu Geybullayeva |Nurbek Bekmurzaev |Brian Hioe |Zita Zage |Arzu Geybulla
This article was first published on OC Media. An edited version is republished here under a content partnership agreement. Georgia's political landscape remains in crisis as mass protests continue in the face of ongoing political turmoil, while the ruling Georgian Dream party presses on with its repressive agenda despite mounting opposition both at home and abroad.
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3 weeks ago | 
globalvoices.org | Jean de Dieu SOVON |Vivian Wu |Nurbek Bekmurzaev |Brian Hioe
Following the discovery of significant oil reserves at the Agadem site in northeastern Niger, Niger and Benin agreed to build a pipeline to facilitate the transport of crude oil from the Agadem oil site to the port of Seme Kpodji in southern Benin in early 2020. By the end of 2023, the 1,980-kilometer pipeline, with nine reservoir stations along the route, was completed.
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3 weeks ago | 
globalvoices.org | Arzu Geybullayeva |Nurbek Bekmurzaev |Brian Hioe |Oiwan Lam |Arzu Geybulla
The news of a young girl giving birth in the city of Aghjabedi in Azerbaijan is the most recent harrowing example of a lack of protection mechanisms for underage girls, and persisting negligence by authorities to address the issue of early marriages and underage birth. This time, at the heart of the story that has sent shockwaves across the society, is a 15-year-old girl whose “husband” got away with statutory rape when she was just 13.
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1 month ago | 
globalvoices.org | Ana Maria Dima |Marius Stan |Nurbek Bekmurzaev |Giovana Fleck
This article was originally published in the online magazine Baikal People. Global Voices is republishing a translated and edited version, with permission. In February 2024, after a four-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, North Korea reopened its borders to tourists from Russia. Over the course of a year, about 1,500 people visited the country. A group of tourists from other countries were allowed for a visit in February 2025 but were once again denied entry in March 2025.
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1 month ago | 
es.globalvoices.org | Jean de Dieu SOVON |Mariela Arnst |Nurbek Bekmurzaev |Janine Mendes-Franco
Este artículo de Katembo Mbuto se publicó originalmente en IciCongo. Global Voices lo reproduce en virtud de un acuerdo para compartir contenido. En el lago Eduardo, uno de los principales de África, la escasez de peces pone en grave peligro a los pescadores: se convierten en presa de cocodrilos que se alimentan de esos peces.
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2 months ago | 
globalvoices.org | Nurbek Bekmurzaev
In 2024, residents of Khanibodom, a small town in Tajikistan’s northern Sughd province, lived under constant fear of being murdered in their own houses. A total of seven incidents took place throughout the year when a group of criminals murdered and robbed entire families and attempted to stage them as family conflicts. On December 21, shortly after two new cases, authorities announced arresting four suspects, but the residents were not yet relieved.
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2 months ago | 
tolerance.ca | Nurbek Bekmurzaev
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2 months ago | 
everand.com | Nurbek Bekmurzaev
Originally published on Global Voices On December 31, 2024, Kyrgyzstan’s deputy head of the cabinet of ministers, Edil Baisalov, announced the handover of the Sapat educational institutions to the Turkish Maarif Foundation. The handover was a major victory for the Turkish authorities, who have been pressuring the Kyrgyz government to close these schools or surrender them to Turkey's ownership and management since 2016.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
es.globalvoices.org | Nurbek Bekmurzaev
La llegada del actual presidente de Kirguistán, Sadyr Japarov, al poder en octubre de 2020, originó un nuevo término, “kusturizatsiya”, que denota la nueva perspectiva del país para combatir los delitos económicos. El término es una combinación de la palabra kirguisa «kusturuu» (provocar el vómito) y el sufijo ruso «zatsiya», que se utiliza al final de las palabras para describir un proceso.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
globalvoices.org | Nurbek Bekmurzaev
The arrival of Kyrgyzstan’s current president Sadyr Japarov to power in October 2020 gave birth to a new term called “kusturizatsiya,” denoting the country’s new approach to fighting economic crimes. The term is a combination of the Kyrgyz word “kusturuu” (to induce vomit) and the Russian suffix “-zatsiya,” which is used at the end of words to describe a process.
