Three-time former prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba was elected as Nepal’s president by the country’s parliament on Tuesday. The political veteran, who has previously served three times in the top post, in 1995-1997, 2001-2002 and 2004-2005, stood unopposed in the election which marked the tenth time in just over a decade that the leadership has changed … Read more
Sher Bahadur Deuba, who Tuesday became prime minister for the fourth time, is a sharp political operator who has swept in and out of power through a series of alliances typical of the horse-trading that defines Nepali politics. Deuba last held power in the final years of the brutal 10-year civil war, which claimed more … Read more
Nepal’s parliament on Tuesday elected an unopposed three-time former prime minister to the top post once again, the tenth time in just over a decade the leadership has changed hands in the Himalayan nation. Sher Bahadur Deuba, a wily political veteran, stood unopposed in the parliamentary election having struck a deal with his predecessor that … Read more
Nepal on Wednesday postponed local elections for a third time after its tiny Muslim community expressed concerns about the polls clashing with the holy month of Ramadan. The elections — the first at local level in 20 years and a key step in Nepal’s drawn-out peace process that ended a civil war in 2006 — … Read more
Nepal’s Maoist prime minister resigned Wednesday as part of a planned handover to a former political foe who will be the impoverished nation’s tenth leader since the end of the civil war in 2006. Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who led the decade-long Maoist insurgency before entering politics, is expected to be succeeded by three-time former prime … Read more
China’s defence minister will arrive in Nepal later Tuesday for talks on joint military exercises, a meeting that will be closely watched by India as Beijing boosts its influence in the region. Chang Wanquan will be in Kathmandu for a three-day visit — the first by a Chinese defence minister in 15 years — that … Read more
Nepal will hold its first local elections in two decades in May, the government has announced, a key moment in the country’s fraught transition to democracy. The impoverished Himalayan nation emerged from a brutal decade-long civil war in 2006, which brought the end of the 240-year-old Hindu monarchy and transformed it into a secular republic. … Read more