COX’S BAZAR (BANGLADESH) (AFP) – Bangladesh’s coast guard rescued 33 Rohingya and detained six alleged human traffickers from a fishing trawler headed for Malaysia in the Bay of Bengal, an official said Wednesday. The rescued included 14 men, 10 women and nine children who had been living in refugee camps in the southeastern Bangladesh district of Cox’s Bazar, according to Fayezul Islam… Read more »
In Tajikistan, the number of female suicides is increasing at an alarming rate. It is a reoccurring and familiar problem, yet not much is being done to get these women the help they need. Seeing a psychiatrist has been deemed taboo, instead it is friends and family members that take on this role.
There was more good news in Tajik-Uzbek relations on October 6, when the head of the Tajik president’s Center for Strategic Research, Hudoyberdy Holiqnazar, announced demining work had started along the border with Uzbekistan.
KABUL — Their faces loom from thousands of gigantic posters strung across the Afghan capital. Some express hopes for youth-driven change, diversity and modernization; others make not-too-subtle appeals for loyalty to an older generation of warlords and ethnic strongmen.
Nearly two dozen Afghans perished in the crash of a military helicopter Wednesday in western Farah province, including the deputy commander for the region and local politicians. The crash, the latest in a series of incidents involving Afghan helicopters, was the deadliest this year.
Self-harm is so taboo that there is limited public discussion about how to tackle it. Jumagul Nosirova, 60, cannot shake the image of her seven-year-old grandchild, Ziyoviddin, waving to her as he left home and saying: “Bye-bye granny.” Some hours later, one evening in July 2015, he and his two sisters, six-year-old Mahina and five-year-old Omina, would be dead. They were… Read more »