Bosnia Hertegovina

Energtek Inc. (Pink Sheets: EGTK), a leader in hi-tech natural gas solutions and Adsorbed Natural Gas (ANG) technology, announced today that the company’s subsidiary in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been granted financing of €1MM from the Sarajevo branch of Raiffeisen Bank, to complete the implementation of the company’s commercial natural …

Twenty years after 16 people were abducted and killed by Serbian paramilitaries, the families of the victims have still not received any reparations, as the state does not recognize them as civilian victims of war.On October 22 in 1992, 16 Bosniaks from the village of Sjeverin in the Sandzak area …

Statistics agencies in Bosnia have started a test census to highlight possible problems in the system ahead of a nationwide survey in April next year.The pilot population and housing census began on October 15 and will continue for two weeks until October 29. It will be conducted in 60 areas …

Bosnian Presidency member Zeljko Komsic has announced he is working on forming a new party after quitting the ruling Social Democratic Party.The Croat member of Bosnia’s tripartite Presidency on Thursday said he was starting a new party which, according to him, will be ready to fight for real changes in …

Bosnia made scant progress on its EU path as its politicians have little interest in furthering the rule of law or transparency, analysts say, after Brussels delivered its critical report.Laws on the Census and on State Aid were the only significant legislative moves that Bosnia made over the last year …

Milorad Dodik, the President of Republika Srpska, said that the Bosnian Serb entity is the only self-sustaining part of Bosnia and Herzegovina and will eventually emerge as an independent country.Dodik believes that Republika Srpska is capable of becoming an independent country.

Twenty years after it was burnt down during the war, the Sarajevo ‘Vijecnica’ building, one of the symbols of the city, has regained some of its former glory as the work was completed on its outer facade.

In a letter to the UN Human Rights Committee a Swiss NGO has criticised a failure of the Bosnian authorities to investigate the murder of two elderly Bosnian Serb women during the war.The Swiss organisation Track Impunity Always, TRIAL, has asked the UN Human Rights Committee to request from the …

The governments of Serbia and the Serb-dominated entity have agreed series of joint projects, including building three bridges over the river Drina.The governments of Serbia and Republika Srpska, one of the two of Bosnia’s entities, agreed on several projects in the fields of energy, transport, construction and economy, on Tuesday …

The US Ambassador to Bosnia, Patrick Moon, has called for reform of the Bosniak-Croat Federation entity, but said he would not propose any solutions.The US embassy in Sarajevo said that in the past six months, the ambassador Patrick Moon has been encouraging individuals, political leaders and NGOs to start a …