Riot police in Kathmandu, the Nepalese capital, on Sunday took to the streets to disperse Maoist protesters who had massed near the government’s main administrative offices as part of a campaign to force the government to step...
Riot police clashed with thousands of communists demonstrating outside the government's main offices in the Nepalese capital on Sunday, injuring several protesters and police officers.
More than two years after a Constituent Assembly was elected to help guide Nepal out of years of civil war and political upheaval, the constitution it was supposed to draft remains unwritten amid endless political bickering.
Nepal's prime minister has agreed to resign as part of a last-minute deal with the country's former Maoist rebels to avert a political crisis.
The government decided to extend the term of the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal by another year and remove its five regional offices.
Nepal's prime minister resigned after bowing to months of pressure from opposition communists who demanded his ouster in parliament and in sometimes-violent street protests.
Madhav Kumar Nepal resigned as prime minister of Nepal on Wednesday after just over a year in office, in response to pressure from opposition Maoists and detractors within his own party.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on Nepal’s political parties to step up their efforts to form a consensus government in the wake of this week’s resignation of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal.