Meho Kodro Returns as Bosnia Head Coach. Kodro was fired in 2008 as a coach after serving only five months. Kodro played in Spain for teams like Real Sociedad. Meho Kodro, a former Bosnian footballer, has been reappointed as the head coach of his national team, marking his return to the role after a gap … Read more
Princess Diana wanted to see landmines removed in Africa. Prince Harry remembers her walking into a minefield. Diana announced “one down, seventeen million to go”. Princess Diana wanted minefields to be removed near the end of her life. The Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry, speaks plainly about how his late mother felt about landmines in … Read more
The Polish Foreign Ministry says that the victims were adults and Polish residents. They were on their way to Medjugorje, a Catholic shrine in Bosnia. The bus deviated off the A4 highway near Jarek Bisaski and Podvorec, north of Zagreb. On Saturday, a bus carrying Polish tourists drove off a road in Croatia, killing twelve … Read more
Hundreds of protesters marched in Sarajevo, Bosnia’s capital, on Monday, urging Russia to cease the Ukraine conflict. Sarajevo was besieged during a devastating civil war in the 1990s. Bosnia’s inter-ethnic war killed nearly 100,000 people, of whom more than 11,000 died during the Sarajevo siege by Serb forces. The march was organized by associations gathering … Read more
Ivica Osim, a former Bosnian player and coach who headed the last Yugoslavia squad before the country violently disintegrated in the 1990s, died on Sunday at the age of 80, according to local media. The Sarajevo-born Osim died in Graz, Austria, the BHRT television channel reported. “Osim will be remembered as the legendary ‘Strauss from … Read more
BANJA LUKA: As the battle in Ukraine rages on, analysts in Bosnia warn that Russia is fueling the flames of separatism, which might signal danger for the severely split Balkan country. Since the conclusion of the conflict that claimed about 100,000 lives between 1992 and 1995, Bosnia has been divided into a Muslim-Croat federation and … Read more
According to local media sources, a 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck southern Bosnia late Friday, killing one person and injuring numerous others. According to a medical source mentioned by the media, a 28-year-old woman was hurt when a rock fell on her house in the town of Stolac, near Mostar, and died in hospital. Several others, including … Read more
A powerful earthquake hit Bosnia late Friday, killing one person and injuring at least two others, as well as forcing hundreds of people to abandon their homes. According to the European Mediterranean Seismicological Center, the magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit 42 kilometres (26 miles) southeast of the city of Mostar at 11:07pm local time on Sunday. EMSC … Read more
On Thursday, a Bosnian court acquitted a former police commander of killing eight ethnic Serb prisoners of war during the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s. Dragan Vikic and three other former policemen were acquitted “since it was not proven that they had committed the criminal acts that they were accused of”, the court said … Read more
Disgusted with corruption and power-hungry politicians, Nebojsa Kalamanda is already planning his exit from Bosnia, leaving behind a broken political system and a stagnant economy. The 21-year-old computer science student living in Banja Luka — the headquarters of Bosnia’s Serb ‘entity’ — says he hopes to move to Switzerland after finishing university, citing the increasingly … Read more
VELIKA KLADUSA: Huddled around cooking fires as winter looms in Bosnia, refugees are risking beatings and humiliation from Croatian police in the desperate hope of a new life in the European Union. Largely from Afghanistan, many of them have endured months or years of flight from war and poverty, only to be met by Croatian … Read more
Twenty-five years have passed since the Muslim genocide in Bosnia, where more than 8,000 Muslims were killed in the town of Srebrenica alone, making it the darkest event in Europe since World War II. According to the reports, 9 more victims of the Serb soldiers were identified and buried among 6,643 other graves. “After 25 … Read more
Bosnian Ambassador to Pakistan Sakib Foric called on Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser in Islamabad on Tuesday. According to the details, Sakib Foric has urged the United Nations to play its role to get stopped Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir. The Ambassador said his country will continue to extend diplomatic support to Pakistan for resolution … Read more
