Kathmandu: 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.
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