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Now in power, Nepal’s rapper-politician Balen Shah faces new challenge

Shah was a rebel – crude and different from the politicians who previously led Nepal. How will he be in office?

Balendra Shah, foreground, receives his victory certificate after election.

Nepal election: Is the monarchy still a force, two decades after ouster?

Ex-King Gyanendra Shah was removed from power 20 years ago. Will a Nepal in political flux give him another chance?

Former King Gyanendra Shah waves to his supporters upon his arrival at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Nepal’s Gen Z threw out old parties. Will it vote for them in key election?

Last year’s protests reflected popular disenchantment with established political parties, which are again seeking power.

Protesters torch Nepal parliament as PM resigns amid turmoil

Balen Shah: Rapper, mayor, Nepal’s next prime minister?

His sunglasses and songs are the rage, but the ex-Kathmandu mayor has his sights on Nepal’s top job.

Balendra Shah, right, former mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City and prime ministerial candidate of the Rastriya Swatantra Party, joins Rabi Lamichhane, left, the party's president, during an election campaign rally in Lalitpur, Nepal, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

‘More egalitarian’: How Nepal’s Gen Z used gaming app Discord to pick PM

It was a first for an electoral democracy. Backers say it’s more transparent than what politicians do. But it has risks.

A government building set on fire by protesters in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, on September 9, 2025 [Samik Kharel/Al Jazeera]

‘They murdered young people’: Nepal’s Gen Z anger explodes after 19 killed

Nepal’s PM resigned on Tuesday as protesters set buildings on fire. But calls for broader change are growing.

Protesters on a Kathmandu street waving the national flag and chanting slogans on Monday [Samik Kharel/Al Jazeera]

‘Want to go home’: Nepalis fighting for Russia in Ukraine describe horrors

They were lured by the promise of $3,000 paycheques and Russian citizenship. Now they’re trapped, wounded or dead.

Nepali mercenaries fighting for the Russian army in Ostrykivka, village near Tokmak in Zaporizhzhia, Russian-occupied Ukraine [Photo courtesy Atit Chettri]

‘I want to see his body’: Nepali dreams turn into Israeli nightmare

Ten Nepali nationals were among those killed when Hamas fighters attacked southern Israel last Saturday.

Nepali nationals gathered at a farm in Kadesh Barnea in southern Israel, from where they travelled to Ben-Gurion Airport to fly back to Nepal on October 12, 2023 [Samik Kharel/Al Jazeera]

68 mishaps in as many years: Why is Nepal prone to air disasters?

Al Jazeera talks to experts on Nepal’s unsafe skies which saw a staggering 68 accidents since 1955, 44 of them deadly.

Nepal Plane Crash

Grim task of identifying the dead begins after Nepal plane crash

Gov’t to probe Yeti Airlines flight that crashed on way from Kathmandu to Pokhara with 72 on board, killing at least 68.

Nepalese rescue workers and civilians gather around the wreckage of a passenger plane that crashed in Pokhara, Nepal