Ministry of Civil Affairs

However, Sarajevo responds that in the absence of the announced deliveries, Bosnia-Herzegovina could seek justice in court.

While many countries race ahead with their COVID-19 vaccination programs, Bosnia and Herzegovina has barely started - will not receive any vaccines through the COVAX mechanism even in March, according to a document received by Bosnia's Ministry of Civil Affairs from the COVAX office.

China has launched a campaign to check severe distress in its economic and social stability that may also pose a threat to Chinese Communist Party rule caused by a sharp plunge in marriage rates due to the one-child policy.

Bosnia's overall population has shrunk significantly in the last 20 years, from 4.3 million in the last pre-war census in 1991 to 3.5 million today. Many of the leavers have been young.

Bosnian sailors and shipping crews have been hit by delays in procedures within the country's bodies for issuing identity documents.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs, the ministry responsible for issuing shipping and maritime ID booklets, has been unable to produce them while regulations and a contract for the booklets were still being coordinated.

As Bosnia's Historical Museum opens a new exhibition to mark the half-century since it opened, it looks set to finally escape the legal limbo in which it has been consigned for more than 20 years. 

Bosnian authorities are completing a revision of the citizenships of some 19,000 people who became naturalised citizens from 1992 to 2006, in order to to uncover possible irregularities, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, which is carrying out the process.