Predrag Zvijerac is a social-media producer in RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
As the World Uyghur Congress gathers in Sarajevo for its conference, Zumretay Arkin, the director of global advocacy for the organization, tells the RFE/RL's Balkan Service the group has faced pressure from Chinese authorities to try and shut down the event.
Migrants fleeing poverty and war continue to face perilous conditions, as 11 people drown in the Drina River on the border of Serbia and Bosnia.
Several windmill-strewn hills in a remote part of Bosnia-Herzegovina are at the center of a social and legal conflict over Chinese investment in renewable energy as Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) penetrates the Balkans.
Mustafa Ceric, the former grand mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina, has sparked controversy at home for being part of an organized tour of Xinjiang that activists say is part of a Chinese effort to silence criticism over its abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslim groups in the western province.
Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina held demonstrations on October 14 in Sarajevo, Banja Luka, and many other cities and towns to draw attention to femicide and call for the legislature to pass laws against it.
A recount of ballots cast for president and two vice presidents in Republika Srpska during the recent general election in Bosnia-Herzegovina has begun.
The Bosnian Serb parliament has adopted a set of steps that would strengthen a secessionist bid to withdraw from state-level institutions despite warnings from the West.
Authorities in Bosnia-Herzegovina say they have arrested seven people suspected of involvement in war crimes committed against civilians during the 1992-95 Bosnian War.
The UN Security Council has rejected a Russian proposal to scrap the post of the international high representative overseeing implementation of the 1995 peace agreement that ended the Bosnian War.
