Fighting continues, including use of tanks and mortars.

Fighting between troops on the border between Tajikistan and Kazakhstan. The two countries have a long-running border dispute.

Military holds its exercise in its history in advance of Taliban’s gains in Afghanistan.

Ceasefire arranged.

Fighting erupts between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan military over border disputes.

Electoral commission announces that Emonali Rahmon has been reelected for another seven-year term with 90% of the vote. He has been in power since 1992. Tajikistan is one of the poorest countries in the world; 40% of its income comes from remittances from abroad. The government long denied that COVID-19 had occurred in the country, but now admits to 10,000 cases.

Tajikistan confirms its first fifteen cases of COVID-19.

Ruling People’s Democratic Party wins 50% of the vote in parliamentary elections and 12 of the 22 seats awarded on the party vote. 41 other seats are being contested and President Imomli Rahkman’s party is expected to win a majority of these as well. The Social Democratic Party, which has criticized Rahkman, again failed to win any seats.

Assembly of Representatives election.

Government arrests more than 100 members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Parliamentary elections. Early returns give President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s Liberal Democratic Party (UzLiDeP) at least 43 out of the 150 seats. Milliy Tiklanish wins second place with 35 seats. The Social Democratic Party (Adolat) wins 21 seats. The People’s Democratic Party wins 18 and the Ecological Party, which had been allocated 15 deputies by default, comes in last with 11 seats. 22 seats are due to go to runoff contests early next year. The outcome is very similar to the previous parliament.

Gunmen attack an outpost on the Tajik-Uzbeki border. Five were captured and they are all believed to be part of an Islamic State militant group.

Robert Kyagulanyi, known as Bobi Wine, is arrested leading a protest demonstration.