By Liam Cochrane Kathmandu 19 June 2007 The Nepal army has defended its human rights reputation in the face of allegations it is responsible for the forced disappearances of up to 1,000 people during the country's civil war. The army promises to coop...
By Liam Cochrane Kathmandu 14 June 2007 Nepal's former rebel Maoist party has asked the United Nations to postpone the verification of the number of their fighters, after two party leaders were killed in the country's south. The United Nations was sc...
By Liam Cochrane Kathmandu 21 May 2007 Nepal's government has agreed to begin making monthly payments to Maoist former rebels now living in U.N.-supervised camps. In return, the Maoists will allow the United Nations to resume efforts to verify the fo...
By Steve Herman New Delhi 01 May 2007 U.N. officials in Nepal had hoped to begin verifying the identities of thousands of people in U.N-supervised camps who claim to be members of the Peoples' Liberation Army. But as Steve Herman reports from New Del...
By Steve Herman Kathmandu 23 April 2007 Nepal has suffered through 10 years of a violent communist insurgency, and a coup by the reigning monarch. Now, precisely one year after mass protests forced King Gyanendra to relinquish absolute power, the Him...
By Steve Herman Kathmandu 17 April 2007 The U.S. ambassador to Nepal understands the need for a delay in elections in the Himalayan kingdom. In the meantime, he says, the United States will conditionally cooperate with government ministries now being...
By Steve Herman Kathmandu 16 April 2007 Nepal's Maoist leader Prachanda during today's news conference, in Kathmandu, 16 Apr 2007 The leader of Nepal's Maoists, who joined the interim government earlier this month, has called for the nation to be dec...
By Steve Herman Kathmandu 15 April 2007 Nepal again has been thrust into political confusion just two weeks after a landmark interim government was formed. The country's elderly prime minister was a no-show for an emergency session of his cabinet on...
By Steve Herman New Delhi 08 April 2007 Demonstrators in Nepal's capital have clashed with police in a failed bid to halt the country's most popular beauty pageant. VOA's Steve Herman reports from our South Asia bureau in New Delhi. Sitashma Chand, 2...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 03 March 2007 Nepal's government and former Maoist rebels have begun negotiations to induct the guerrillas in an interim administration. Anjana Pasricha has this report from New Delhi on how Nepal's peace process is farin...