One year after Kosovo Police sergeant Afrim Bunjaku was killed when Serb gunmen led by Kosovo Serb kingpin Milan Radoicic attacked police in the village of Banjska, the authorities renamed a road leading to the village after him. Prime Minister Albin Kurti, members of the cabinet, parliament speaker Glauk Konjufca and police director Gazmed Hoxha…
Elez Biberaj, a Voice of America journalist, reflected in an interview with BIRN on how the 1980-1990s rising tensions in Kosovo prompted VOA leadership to send correspondents to report from the region. Biberaj, an ethnic Albanian from Montenegro, migrated to the U.S. with his family at the age of 15. He began working at VOA…
Kosovo’s judicial system is facing numerous challenges due to widespread misinformation, defamatory accusations, and the public’s lack of understanding of the competences of judiciary and security institutions. The blending of responsibilities between Kosovo’s police, prosecutors, and courts, coupled with biased reporting from media and unfounded claims by politicians, has led to confusion and mistrust in…
Fans entered the field during a Kosovo vs Romania football match on September 6 in Kosovo’s capital of Prishtina. They were taken by surprise when people threw fireworks and verbally abused other fans during the national anthem of Romania. Skender Perteshi, a security expert from the Prishtina based think tank Institute for Security and Resilience,…
In Kosovo, agritourism is on the rise, with people abandoning urban stress to invest in village revitalisation and establish a sustainable lifestyle away from the city. Adrian Berisha once felt shackled by the grind of urban life in Prishtina, which he likened to modern-day slavery. The ceaseless battle for affordability on stepping out of his…
New report lists three Balkan states among the ten countries worldwide where fewest people separate their household waste, causing problems for the environment and risks to health – with a lack of awareness largely to blame. Kosovo, Montenegro and Albania are among the top ten countries worldwide where fewest households report separating their household waste,…
Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani was awarded the M100 Media Award in Potsdam, Germany, for her commitment to strengthening democracy, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, and European values. Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani was honored with the M100 Media Award on Thursday, September 12 at the international media conference Sanssouci Colloquium in Potsdam, Germany. The…
Most survivors of sexual abuse during the Kosovo war still suffer severe psychological consequences as a result of their ordeal, a new report by two NGOs, Medica Mondiale and Medica Gjakova, concludes. German NGO Medica Mondiale and local Kosovo NGO Medica Gjakova, which works with survivors of sexual abuse from the Kosovo war, published a report on…
In an effort to address the issue of stray dogs, the Municipality of Prishtina has opened a treatment and shelter centre for dogs, aiming to find adopters for them afterward. The Municipality of Prishtina on Wednesday inaugurated a centre for the treatment and sheltering of stray dogs on Wednesday, September 11, located just seven kilometres…
Forty-five suspects, including powerful Kosovo Serb businessman Milan Radoicic, were charged by prosecutors in Prishtina over last September’s armed attack on Kosovo police officers in the northern village of Banjska. Kosovo’s Special Prosecution announced on Wednesday that it has filed an indictment charging 45 over the attack in September 2023 by a Serb armed group…