Hoda Abdel-Hamid

Farm­ers have band­ed to­geth­er to get sea­son­al work­ers into the fields to save their busi­ness­es.

Women gained equal rights in the 2004 con­sti­tu­tion, but noth­ing is guar­an­teed.

There have been near­ly 80 at­tacks in Afghanistan since the US and the Tal­iban signed a peace deal a week ago.

Some Afghans be­lieve the coun­try will be bet­ter off with no for­eign troops, while oth­ers fear the Tal­iban’s re­turn.

De­spite re­cent re­duc­tion in vi­o­lence, po­lit­i­cal di­vi­sions in Kab­ul may pose a chal­lenge to end­ing the war against the Tal­iban.

Afghanistan has record­ed its first coro­n­avirus case, but can the coun­try’s health­care sys­tem cope with a pos­si­ble out­break?

Be­yond veil of au­thor­i­tar­i­an­ism, Uzbek vot­ers are hop­ing for change, but hu­man rights groups are rais­ing con­cerns.

Con­ser­va­tion­ists say an­i­mal num­bers are in­creas­ing af­ter gov­ern­ment im­posed a strict mora­to­ri­um on hunt­ing.

Bishkek plans to in­tro­duce laws in an ef­fort to in­crease state con­trol over re­li­gious schools, but some say move does not cater to Mus­lim-ma­jor­i­ty pop­u­la­tion.

A riv­er canal net­work stretch­es across the Fer­gana Val­ley which is shared by Kyr­gyzs­tan, Uzbek­istan and Tajik­istan.