Tajikistan News News Tajikistan » Life: Land Degradation and Tajikistan’s Food Security Crisis
Tajikistan ranks among the world’s most vulnerable countries to land degradation, according to a November report from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Nearly 70 percent of the country ...
News Tajikistan » Life: Sustained By The Syr Darya: How One River Keeps Tajik Farmers Afloat
Tajikistan's northern Sughd Region is a rich agricultural basin thanks to the Syr Darya River that transits the area. For 144 kilometers the river flows through Tajikistan -- barely enough for the ...
News Tajikistan » Life: Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan cheer as CASA-1000 sputters back to life
A dormant project to build high-voltage power lines from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to electricity-starved Afghanistan and Pakistan has sputtered back to life. Last month, the World Bank signaled that ...
News Tajikistan » Life: Tajikistan: Prosecutors seek life sentence for ISIS attack ringleader
The trial in Tajikistan of a group of men suspected of involvement in a deadly attack on a group of foreign cyclists is coming to a close. Prosecutors on November 19 asked for the suspected ringleader ...
News Tajikistan » Life: Tajikistan sentences killer of Western cyclists to life
Tajikistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday sentenced an Islamic State jihadist to life in prison for organising an attack this summer that killed four Western tourists on a cycling trip. Hussein ...
News Tajikistan » Life: Tajikistan Islamist leaders face life in prison
A leader of a banned Islamic party in Tajikistan has voiced concern over the fate of sixteen opposition leaders, who are currently in government custody. Muhiddin Tilloevich Kabiri, head of the ...