BiH dropped 17 places in the 2024 World Press Freedom Index, now ranking 81st in 180 countries amid a deepening crisis for local media freedom driven by factors that include attempts to introduce legislation restricting freedom of expression

The 30th anniversary of the 1995 genocide of Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces was celebrated with the mass funeral of seven more victims in a ceremony at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre

Public was shocked at the official press release saying Milorad Dodik, President of Republika Srpska entity, thus subject of an arrest warrant, had voluntarily appeared before the Prosecutor’s Office as a suspect "for attack on constitutional order"

The BiH embassies in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran and Tel Aviv, State of Israel will be temporarily closed following a Presidency decision taken at an extraordinary session; diplomatic relations will be continued from Sarajevo

Following an outcry over a series of killings of women, parliament in Bosnia’s Federation entity has changed the law to recognise gender-based murder as a separate crime