Full Coverage: South West Asia

30.07.2007 Thirteen years after the cease-fire agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia, villagers still living along the Azerbaijani frontline remain trapped in a state of neither peace nor war.

27.07.2007 NEW YORK, Jul 27 (OneWorld) - Calls for increased help from Washington are on the rise as global efforts to tackle the world's burgeoning water and sanitation crisis have largely failed to produce any meaningful results so far.

26.07.2007 Georgian ensimmäinen yhteisöradio aloitti lähetykset, kun Ninotsmindan kaupungin keskustan kovaäänisistä alkoi kuulumaan paikallisten toimittajien lähetykset. EU:n rahoittaman projektin toimittajat ovat saaneet asiantuntijakoulutuksen ennen lähetysten aloittamista kaupungissa, joka joutuu usein sääolojen vuoksi eristyksiin muusta maailmasta. Yhteisöradioita on hyödynnetty kehitysyhteistyössä menestyksekkäästi jo vuosien ajan.

25.07.2007 KARACHI, Jul 25 (IPS) - As Superintendent Nusrat Hussain Mangan of Central Prison in the southern port city of Karachi spends sleepless nights trying to figure out how to raise money to save the life of one inmate, just one of 107 on his death row, there are moments of near despair.

25.07.2007 The International Federation of Journalists has welcomed the release of journalist Mohammad Asif Nang after 13 days in detention. He was detained after his article angered the Afghan president.
From: IFEX

20.07.2007 BBC World Service Trust’s new radio station in the Eurasian nation of Georgia broadcasts its programmes through loudspeakers at the city centre. The local ethnic residents are learning how to produce their own programmes and gain computer literacy.

13.07.2007 "The Olympics in the Caucasus, which has long been seen as unstable, will promote peace and understanding," said the president of Georgia, whose breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are mere kilometers from the site of the 2014 Winter Games. Analysts are not all so optimistic.

02.07.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 2 (OneWorld) - Marine Corps reservist Todd Bowers was half-way through his degree in Middle Eastern Studies at George Washington University when the Pentagon pulled him out of school and sent him on two combat tours to Iraq.