The Latest Breaking News from Bosnia

Dozens of journalists and rights activists have protested outside parliament in Bosnia’s Serb-run part as lawmakers debated whether to advance a contested law which critics say would restrict freedom of expression and silence critical media

I still vividly remember the moment when Lola told me her wartime rapist was not in jail. I had phoned Lola, a Bosnian woman raped during the 1992 war, to discuss how all the challenges she’d faced during the trial had paid off.

Moves to restart Bosnia's European Union integration came a step closer on Wednesday with the formation of a central government headed by ethnic Croat Borjana Kristo, months after elections were held in October.

Every year, Holocaust Memorial Day remembers the millions who died in the Holocaust - as well as genocides in places such as Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur

The Drina River in Visegrad in eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina has been overflowing with huge piles of rubbish following wet weather in recent weeks

Plastic bottles, rusty barrels and even old refrigerators are among the tons of garbage clogging rivers in Bosnia.On the Drina River, which flows between Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia, garbage is stuck behind a trash barrier near a key hydroelectric power plant, forming huge rubbish islands that float on the surface.

Decades after the devastating 1990s wars that accompanied the break-up of Yugoslavia, the Balkans lag behind the rest of Europe, both economically and with regard to environmental protection.

Tons of waste dumped in poorly regulated riverside landfills or directly into the waterways that flow across three countries end up accumulating in the Drina River in eastern Bosnia during wet weather

A high-tech dairy farm is among the first in Bosnia turning biogas from animal faeces and silage into electricity, as it aims to become self-reliant at a time when high energy prices pose a risk to the subsidy-dependent agricultural sector.