Prijedor

The government of Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity has halted an announced increase in electricity prices at the last moment after coming under fierce pressure from consumers, experts, unions, the opposition and even some members of the ruling parties.

"As a single mother, I was outraged," a resident of the northwestern town of Prijedor told BIRN on Thursday, about the plan.

A sudden decision by the Republika Srpska (RS) education ministry to instruct all primary schools in the entity to officially change the name of one of Bosnia's three constituent languages from 'Bosnian' to 'Bosniak' has triggered strong reactions in the ethnically-divided country.

While the Republika Srpska, RS, government is working on its third set of economic and social reforms that it began to implementing in early 2015, local businessmen and private entrepreneurs say they still do not see any positive effects from the previous rounds of reforms.

On Wednesday evening, a young Bosnian Serb woman timidly walked into the Kozara cinema, the only cinema in the town of Prijedor in the north-west of Bosnia's Serb dominated entity, Republika Srpska.

"Are you open?" she asked the clerk. "I wondered whether I would find anyone here. I didn't dare leave the home for two days, not even to put my kid into kindergarten."

The new government of Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity, Republika Srpska, faces a dilemma in selecting a strategic partner to buy the Ljubija iron ore mines.

4 former members of Bosnian Serb army arrested

SARAJEVO -- Four persons suspected of war crimes committed against Bosniak civilians in Sanski Most have been arrested on the towns of Prijedor and Banja Luka.

The arrests were carried out by members of the the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

A witness at Ratko Mladic’s war crimes trial said that some Bosniaks and Croats voluntarily joined the Bosnian Serb military chief’s armed forces in the town of Prijedor in 1992.

Relatives of Bosniak civilians killed at Keraterm near the town of Prijedor in July 1992 gathered outside the former detention camp to mark the anniversary of their deaths.

Hazards such as unexploded landmines left from the 1992-95 war and hidden weapons that people have stored since the conflict ended have started emerging in Bosnia as a result of the flood disaster.