Nepal's troubled 20-year transition from monarchical rule to a multi-party democracy has involved rebel insurgency, a bloody 10-year civil war and ongoing political turmoil.
Following a 2006 peace accord, under which the country's Maoist rebels were brought into government, the country has spent the past four years attempting to implement its post-conflict peace and constitution-making process. But the impoverished Asian nation remains extremely unstable and in recent months has teetered on the brink of outright political collapse.
