According to measurements taken on Christmas Day, the city of Banja Luka was the most polluted city in the country, with the air quality index in the city area of 279, or 'very unhealthy for the population'

The Sevdalinka, an ancient Bosnia and Herzegovina love song form often referred to as 'Balkan Blues', has been included in the UNESCO National Intangible Cultural Heritage Inventory

Due to the heavy snowfall over the past few days, around 200.000 homes were left without electricity, motorways have been closed and rail services disrupted; snowfall also made made difficult the operation of domestic heating and drinking water systems

7.540 people who disappeared during the war in the 1990s still haven't been accounted for, with the country searching for them; there are around 1.300 unidentified remains, both complete and incomplete, in the morgues

Critical gaps in Bosnia and Herzegovina's HIV response have emerged with the termination of Global Fund grants, according to new WHO figures; major challenges are the limited surveillance and insufficient data collection among key population clusters