RFE/RL BALKAN REPORT
28.11.2013
A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about the countries of the western Balkans.
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 Serbs Block Asylum Seekers' Bus Several hundred people on have blocked a road near Belgrade to stop a bus transporting African and Middle East asylum seekers to a compound in the suburb of Usce. More  Asylum Seekers Live Rough In Serbia Serbia has become a magnet for asylum seekers from Africa and the Middle East, but the country's two refugee camps are now fully occupied and closed off to new arrivals. With nowhere to go, many of the asylum seekers have been pushed out into the forest to live in tents and makeshift shelters -- but without basic amenities like heat and power. As winter arrives in Europe, RFE/RL correspondent Vesna Andjic visited one of the forest camps near the village of Bogovadja, some 70 km (43 miles) from Belgrade. (Text by Reuters) More  Kosovo Gets A Facebook 'Like' The world's largest social network, Facebook, has finally listed Kosovo as its own country -- more than five years after the breakaway territory proclaimed independence from Serbia and after some 100 countries around the world have extended formal recognition. More  Bosnian U.S. Embassy Attacker Gets Jail A court of appeals in Bosnia has sentenced Serbian national, Mevlid Jasarevic, to 15 years in jail for attacking the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo in 2011.More  Kosovo Town Counts Votes In Poll Rerun Votes are being counted in a Serb-dominated part of Kosovo after a previous vote there was annulled due to violence. More Voters on November 17 will elect local mayors and councilors at three polling stations in the town of Mitrovica, where masked Serbian ultranationalists destroyed ballot boxes and intimidated voters during the previous elections on November 3. More  Serbs Vote Again In Kosovo Districts Polls have closed in a Serb-dominated town in Kosovo after a previous vote there was annulled due to violence. More  U.S. Ambassador: Repeat Kosovo Elections Will Be Secure The U.S. ambassador to Kosovo says increased security at repeat elections in northern Mitrovica will deter attempts to harass voters or invalidate ballots as occurred earlier this month. More |
