Prijedor

Former Bosniak fighter Muhamed Kusuran was sentenced to 12 years in prison for killing two civilians and attempting to kill two more in Kozarac near Prijedor in the summer of 1992.

ArcelorMittal could shut down its operations across Bosnia and Herzegovina as a result of a tax dispute with the government of Republika Srpska, a senior company employee told BIRN on Monday.

Hundreds of human remains - probably those of Bosniaks and Croats killed during wartime ethnic cleansing - were found during the exhumation of a mass grave in Jakarina Kosa near Prijedor.

Some of the eight schools that were rebuilt in the Prijedor region of northwest Bosnia after catastrophic floods in the spring of 2014 need significant repairs, right after renovation works were completed.

Another in a series of ethnic-related incidents has increased tension in the Prijedor region of northwest Bosnia, in the Republika Srpska, only two days after local authorities and members of religious communities met to calm the situation.

Bosniaks gathered on Thursday at the iron ore mining complex in Omarska to mark the anniversary of the day in August 1992 when the notorious detention camp was closed down.

Around 6,000 Bosniak and Croat men and women were detained at Omarska and some 700 of them were killed in the three months during which the camp operated at the beginning of the Bosnian war.

Several hundred people gathered on Tuesday in the village of Trnopolje, where 23 years ago the Bosnian Serb wartime leadership opened one of the most notorious detention camps of the 1992-95 conflict.

The business community and economic experts in Republika Srpska have expressed concern that new laws adopted to improve the economy in Bosnia's mainly Serbian entity may have the contrary effect.

The assembly in the entity debated a set of reform laws on Wednesday and adopted several of them on Thursday.

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.