Bosnia and Herzegovina

With estimated 50.000 pathological gamblers, Sanela Pekic - associate expert for addiction prevention programs - pointed out that the country has a serious problem with gambling and betting

Representatives of Croatian and Bosnian political parties in the country, who were supposed to agree on changes to the electoral law during a three-day negotiating session, failed to come closer in their views

Most of the young people over 25 who have recently left the country have emigrated to EU countries, according to Fena agency from the BiH Statistics Agency

Bosnians and Herzegovinians in the UK, Italy, Sweden, Belgium and 14 other countries organised protests in favour of maintaining peace and stability in the country, urging the EU to react against those who question its survival as a nation

In the first three days of the New Year, a record 15.000 people visited Mostar, raising hopes for the definitive revival of tourism in the south of the country

Investigators in Nevesinje, a town in the Herzegovina region, are still looking for 20 children who disappeared during the 1992-95 war

Residents of Mostar are mobilising to close the large open-air landfill, known as the landfill of death, which is considered by many to be harmful not only to the environment but also to the increase in cancer in its inhabitants

New UN survey says some 47% of Bosnians aged 18 to 29 are contemplating emigration, either temporarily or permanently, disillusioned by the lack of prospects at home

In an effort to move away from oil for heating and thus reduce air pollution from its district heating system, the Canton of Sarajevo will soon switch to geothermal water

Hajra Catic, the head of the Women of Srebrenica association, which campaigns to maintain public awareness of the 1995 genocide of Bosniaks, has died in Sarajevo

While war looms over the region, Sarajevo will install a memorial to the mostly Serb victims killed in 1992-1993 in the hills above the city upon orders of a Bosniak commander of an Army brigade, but without naming the perpetrators

The exhibition "Wake up, Europe! Support and solidarity mobilizations with Bosnia and Herzegovina and its citizens, 1992-1995", dedicated to the European support for the country in the 1990s, was inaugurated in Sarajevo