South Slavs

The Bosnian diaspora represents an untapped resource for the country's economic development but its government so far has not found a way to exploit their potential.

Bosnians possess a worrying quantity of firearms, which potentially pose a threat to the country's security, a Bosnian arms expert told BIRN on Tuesday.

"There are at least 750,000 illegal firearms in Bosnia ... which basically means that statistically at least 20 per cent of Bosnian residents are armed," Armin Krzalic, director of the Center for Security Studies in Sarajevo, said.

Bosnian authorities are due to approve an agreement or concordat with Bosnia's Islamic Community, which will regulate and define the relationship between the Bosnian state and the Muslim community, the largest faith group in the country.

Acting Serbian Police Director Vladimir Rebic said on Tuesday there are some 1,000 migrants currently "stuck" in the country.

There are as many on the border with Macedonia, he revealed.

The Syrian citizen Imad Al-Husin better known as Abu Hamza on Thursday told the TV network Aljazeera Balkans that he may file a lawsuit against the Bosnian authorities for keeping him for more than seven years in detention, on suspicion that he represented a threat to national security.

"I challenge the Bosnian authorities to hold a fair trial," Al-Husin told Aljazeera.

We spent the last two days of 2015 joining Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu's trip to Belgrade, Serbia's capital, as a group of journalists. 

Bosnian Croat parties have joined their counterparts in the country's Serb-led entity Republika Srpksa in calling for the immediate reform of the Constitutional Court.

They are calling for the three foreign judges on the nine-member court to be removed permanently, saying that it gives the international community too much influence over constitutional rulings.

Hundreds of Kosovars in the southern town of Prizren joined the celebration of the Justice and Development (AK) party's victory on Sunday, some carrying banners with Erdogan's picture and chanting his party's slogans, others driving around waving Turkish flags.

The recent ransacking of four houses belonging to Bosniak [Bosnian Muslim] returnees in Drljajice, a remote hamlet in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina, reaffirms concerns that ethnic tensions are worsening in the troubled country.

Bulgarian Vice President Margarita Popova has thrown its support behind the united organization that is to represent Bulgarians living in Serbia, the President's press office has said.

The body is to be set up in the months to come, Bulgaria's Consul General Atanas Krastin is quoted as telling Popova at a meeting in the Serbian city in Nis.