{"id":9800,"date":"2025-09-09T11:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/9800\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T11:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:46:09","slug":"nepal-pm-kp-sharma-oli-resigns-after-deadly-protests-triggered-by-social-media-ban-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/9800\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal PM KP Sharma Oli resigns after deadly protests triggered by social media ban | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nepal’s prime minister KP Sharma Oli has resigned after violent anti-corruption protests.<\/p>\n

“The PM has quit,” his aide Prakash Silwal told Reuters news agency on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

In his resignation letter, sent to Nepal’s President Ram Chandra Paudel, Mr Oli said he is leaving with immediate effect “in order to take further steps towards a political solution and resolution of the problems […] taking into account the extraordinary situation currently prevailing in the country.”<\/p>\n

The president has now begun the process to install a new PM, his aide said.<\/p>\n

Mr Oli’s exit comes as demonstrators defied an indefinite curfew, clashed with police and set politicians’ homes on fire, a day after 19 people died<\/a> in violent protests triggered by a social media ban.<\/p>\n

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His government lifted the ban<\/a> after protests turned violent when police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters trying to storm parliament on Monday.<\/p>\n

The unrest is the worst Nepal<\/a> has seen in decades. The Himalayan country has struggled with economic uncertainty and political instability since protests led to its monarchy being abolished in 2008.<\/p>\n

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Prior to resigning, Mr Oli had on Tuesday called a cross-party meeting where he said violence was not in Nepal’s interests and added: “We have to resort to peaceful dialogue to find solutions to any problem.”<\/p>\n

But anger against the government continued with protesters gathering outside parliament and other significant locations in the Nepali capital of Kathmandu.<\/p>\n

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Kathmandu Airport, Nepal’s international gateway, closed at around 3.15pm local time (10.30am UK time) on Tuesday due to the unrest.<\/p>\n

In the city centre, some demonstrators set fire to tyres, threw stones at riot police and chased officers through the streets.<\/p>\n

The Kathmandu homes of some politicians were also set on fire. These include properties belonging to resident Poudel and Sher Bahadur Deuba, leader of the largest party Nepali Congress.<\/p>\n

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Local media reported that some ministers were taken to safety by military helicopters.<\/p>\n

The demonstrations began in response to social media networks, including Facebook, X and YouTube, being blocked in Nepal last week after they failed to comply with new government regulations.<\/p>\n

But the unrest has spiralled, driven by young people’s frustration with the Nepali government’s perceived lack of action to tackle corruption and boost economic opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nepal’s prime minister KP Sharma Oli has resigned after violent anti-corruption protests. “The PM has quit,” his aide…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-9800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}