The President of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov is dead. He passed away at the age of 78 after suffering a stroke.
Islam Karimov, who dominated the Central Asia’s most populous nation for more than 25 years, has been in hospital since last Saturday after his health deteriorated.
He had ruled Uzbekistan, a nation of 32 million people, since 1989, first as the head of the local Communist Party and then as president of the newly independent republic from 1991.
Karimov lacks a clear successor after being re-elected to a fifth term in 2015 with more than 90 percent of the vote. The country has never held an election judged free and fair by international monitors.
Reuters says the the transition of power is likely to be decided behind closed doors by a small group of senior officials and family members.
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