Authorities in Kyrgyzstan’s southern city of Osh have declared a state of emergency after mudslides and flooding caused by heavy rains killed at least four people on July 14, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported. As of July 15, the deaths of a 44-year-old woman and her three daughters, as well as the death of another woman,
China and five Central Asian nations have officially established a China-Central Asia emergency management cooperation mechanism, Xinhua reported. China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan signed a memorandum of understanding on the establishment of the mechanism during a ministerial meeting in Urumqi, the capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, last week. The six
Kyrgyzstan is sending the second batch of humanitarian aid to neighboring Kazakhstan suffering from unprecedented spring floods, 24.kg news agency reported with reference to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Kyrgyzstan. The new humanitarian cargo consists of Kyrgyzstan-made dairy products — 10 thousand liters of kefir, 14.2 thousand packs of sour cream, 10 thousand liters
On April 11, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov held a meeting of the national headquarters for the response to unprecedented spring floods in the country’s northern regions, with the main focus on the northwestern regions, where a second wave of floods is expected. Large volumes of water caused by the rapid spring snowmelt are
On April 8, a caravan of 15 trucks with 300 tons of humanitarian aid from Kyrgyzstan arrived in the city of Aktobe in Kazakhstan, where the convoy has been divided between four regions of Kazakhstan hit by unprecedented spring floods, the Kyrgyz Ministry of Emergency Situations reported. Three trucks with humanitarian cargo headed to the
The Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic, Akylbek Japarov on April 4 announced that Kyrgyzstan will provide humanitarian aid to neighboring Kazakhstan in response to unprecedented floods caused by abrupt warm weather that led to a mass snowmelt. Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Emergency Situations has reported that almost 19 thousand people have been evacuated
Kazakhstan’s Deputy Emergency Minister Bauyrzhan Syzdyqov said on April 2 that more than 15,700 people, including almost 6,200 children, have been evacuated across the nation amid unprecedented floods caused by abrupt warm weather that led to a mass snowmelt, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported. Syzdyqov said the situation remains “complicated” in several regions, where flood waters continue to
The official opening ceremony of the new fire and rescue station was held on January 26 in Osh city in southern Kyrgyzstan. The construction of the new facility became possible within the framework of trilateral cooperation between the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Kyrgyz Republic, the Government of Korea through the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and
A major earthquake followed by a series of aftershocks struck early on January 23 along the China-Kyrgyzstan border, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported. Kyrgyz Emergencies Minister Boobek Ajikeev said in a video message that the earthquake was felt shortly after midnight in Kyrgyzstan and was especially strong in several districts of the northern Issyk-Kul
