| IRIN: Today's most popular IRIN articles |
NAIROBI, 18 July 2007 (IRIN) - Here are the most popular new articles on the IRIN website over the last 24 hours. Updated hourly. This feature was launched on 18 July, but will display the latest, most popular items of today.
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| TURKMENISTAN: Country joins regional efforts to combat drugs |
 ALMATY, 16 July 2007 (IRIN) - Turkmenistan has signed up to regional efforts to coordinate the fight against the drug trade, Turkmen media say. Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has signed an agreement with several regional states to set up a body to coordinate efforts to combat transnational crime, including the fight against drugs.
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| CENTRAL ASIA: Regional water management lacks cohesion |
 ALMATY, 25 April 2007 (IRIN) - As officials and water specialists from across Central Asia gathered in the Kazakh commercial capital of Almaty to mark a decade and a half of post-Soviet efforts to regulate scarce water supplies in the region, there are doubts about whether they are prepared to make committed efforts to assure water security for the region’s more than 55 million inhabitants.
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| TURKMENISTAN: President pushes ahead with education and agricultural reform |
 ALMATY , 4 April 2007 (IRIN) - Turkmenistan’s president has announced a salary hike for teachers as he pushes ahead with an overhaul of a deteriorated education system and announced plans to reform the country’s ailing agricultural sector.
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| TURKMENISTAN: President sworn in amid cautious hope for change |
ALMATY, 15 February 2007 (IRIN) - A new Turkmen president has been sworn into office after winning the country’s first presidential election in 15 years with a resounding 89 percent of the vote. Observers are watching the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat, to see if Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov will honour campaign pledges of social reform, and question whether the new leader will bring political liberalisation to this tightly controlled country.
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| TURKMENISTAN: Election pledges raise hope of change |
 ALMATY, 8 February 2007 (IRIN) - As the Turkmen people go to the polls on 11 February to vote in their first presidential elections in 15 years, there are hopes for urgently needed reforms in healthcare and education.
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| TURKMENISTAN: Rights groups worried for killed journalist's family |
 ANKARA, 26 September 2006 (IRIN) - Rights groups are concerned about the plight of family members of a murdered journalist who died in custody earlier this month in Turkmenistan.
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| TURKMENISTAN: Jailed RFE/RL journalist died in custody - rights group |
ANKARA, 14 September 2006 (IRIN) - An imprisoned Turkmen journalist, Ogulsapar Muradova, who had been working for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), was reported dead in custody on Thursday, according to the Turkmen Helsinki Foundation (THF).
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| TURKMENISTAN: Government condemned over jailing of two journalists and a rights activist |
 ANKARA, 28 August 2006 (IRIN) - Rights groups have condemned Ashgabat for the jailing of two journalists and a rights activist in the reclusive Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan.
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| TURKMENISTAN: Rights group reiterates call for release of activists |
ANKARA, 20 July 2006 (IRIN) - An exiled human rights group has reiterated its call for the immediate release of three prisoners, including members of its own staff, held for more than a month in Turkmenistan.
Amankurban Amanklychev was detained on 16 June and Ogulsapar Muradova and Sapardurdy Khajiev on 18 June, according to Human Rights Watch. They were arrested on charges of trying to destabilise the energy-rich nation.
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