Twenty-three members of Liridona Deliu’s family were killed in a massacre in September 1998 – but she’s facing an uphill battle to be recognised by the Kosovo government as a war victim. Survivors of the Abri e Eperme/Gornje Obrinje massacre in the Drenas area of Kosovo, in which 23 members of the Deliu family were…
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…
Nenad Orlovic was jailed for 15 months and fined 12,000 euros for his role in violent attacks on NATO peacekeepers in Serb-majority northern Kosovo in May 2023. Prishtina Basic Court on Monday sentenced a Kosovo Serb, Nenad Orlovic, to 15 months’ imprisonment and fined him 12,000 euros for participating in violent clashes between Serb protesters…
Kosovo government protests as European Commission scraps visa requirement for its residents who hold Serbian passports issued by Serbia’s Directorate for Kosovo. Kosovo residents, most of them Serbs, who have passports issued by Serbia’s Directorate for Kosovo, until now less valuable than standard Serbian passports, will now be able to cross the external border of…
German ambassador Jorn Rohde told BIRN in an interview on Thursday that Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti should not have been surprised that Germany and France asked Kosovo to send the draft statute of the long-delayed Serb municipality body to the Constitutional Court for approval as a prerequisite for membership of the Council of Europe.“I…
The surge in summer tourism in Kosovo, marked by the organisation of large-scale international festivals, has underscored the accommodation challenges prompting an increasing reliance on platforms such as Airbnb to fill the void left by limited hotel capacities. Rreze Cuca, from Tuz, Montenegro, was not able to find accommodation in Prishtina in 2022 when two…
Kosovo’s flag at the opening ceremony of the Paralympics. Photo: Kosovo Paralympic Committee/Facebook The Paris Paralympics will include 4,400 athletes with physical, visual and intellectual impairments competing in 22 sports from August 29 to September 8. France 24 has reported that 2 million tickets have been sold so far.
In Kosovo, a pioneering project supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation is transforming primary healthcare services by training medical staff and establishing Health Education Rooms, providing vital health services and emotional and psychological support for patients with chronic diseases. Resmije Ibrahimi, a 55-year-old from Vushtrri, has recently found solace in the compassionate…
Srdjan Lazovic, a Kosovo Serb arrested in June, is accused of taking part in the mass detention and torture of hundreds of civilians at a village in the Malisheve/Malisevo area in 1999. Kosovo’s Special Prosecution on Tuesday said it has indicted a former reservist member of the Yugoslav Army for war crimes against civilians in…
Serbian authorities attempted to legitimize the terrorist attack in the north of Kosovo by presenting it as an effort to protect Serb minorities from the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. This narrative draws parallels to the Russian Federation’s legitimation attempts for its aggression against neighboring countries, as in the case of Ukraine. In the north of…