By empty (9/16/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

The World Bank announced on 15 September that it has decided to extend a new $13.5 million grant to support Georgia\'s poverty reduction program. The World Bank statement added that the country\'s poverty reduction effort will focus on \"strengthening public-sector accountability, efficiency, and transparency; improve electricity and gas sector services; improve the environment for private sector development; and improve social protection, education, and health care services.

By empty (9/16/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Seven hundred protestors seized 36 hectares (89 acres) of land in southern Bishkek on 15 September, RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service reported. A spokesperson for the group said that Kyrgyz officials had promised them plots of land in the spring but have since failed to keep their word. The protestors claimed to have documents proving their right to the plots.

By empty (9/16/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

The UN has evacuated a group of 11 Uzbek refugees from the central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan. The 11 fled to Kyrgyzstan after what eyewitnesses and human rights groups say was a massacre of civilians in the Uzbek town of Andijan in May The Uzbek government says the events in Andijan were an attempt to overthrow the government. It has accused the UN of violating the 1951 Geneva Convention on refugees by evacuating the 11 unilaterally.