Bosnia and Herzegovina should urgently close a temporary migrant camp or people will “start to die” during the winter period, a European human rights official warned Tuesday (3 December). The camp in the village of Vucjak near the Bihac region, which borders Croatia, was built by authorities in June […]

    Hundreds of migrants housed in the makeshift camp Vucjak near Bihac have been freezing for weeks, and the arrival of winter has further aggravated the situation. Some of the tents housing the migrants collapsed under the weight of the snow, and the migrants welcomed the first snow this […]

  The European Union has been supporting Bosnia and Herzegovina, including Una Sana Canton, in the management of the ongoing migration situation. Today, EU officials visited Bihać and met with the Prime Minister of Una Sana Canton and the mayor of Bihac. “The European Union is here to help and has been […]

  Several hundred residents of the city of Bihac gathered to protest and express their dissatisfaction with the situation with migrants in this city outside the Bira temporary reception center. They demand the closure of this temporary center, the relocation of migrants outside the urban metropolitan area and maximum protection […]

Representatives of the European Commission and of the Office for Humanitarian Aid from Brussels will visit Bihac and Velika Kladusa on Monday at 10 am and will meet with representatives of Una-Sana Canton authorities to discuss the migrant crisis. The decision to close the Bira and Miral reception centers remains […]

  On 13 November 2019, the Operational Group for Resolving the Migration Crisis in Una Sana Canton took the decision to introduce a lockdown of the reception centres Bira in Bihać and Miral in Velika Kladuša. Such measures will prohibit migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees, including unaccompanied children, from entering or […]

  The European Union notes the decision taken by the BiH authorities to allocate two additional facilities for reception of migrants outside of the Una Sana Canton. This decision will unburden the pressure of the authorities of Bihac and USC that have been shouldering migration flow so far. The EU’s […]

  Site preparation work for the construction of a new commercial airport in Bihać, in north-western Bosnia and Herzegovina, has commenced. An access road to the future airport complex is under construction, while a perimeter fence has also been erected. The Federal Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina allocated a further […]

  New vehicles delivered today to the Una Sana Canton Ministry of Interior are part of overall support from the European Union to strengthen migration capacities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The European Union has been directly supporting the Police and Ministry of Interior of Una Sana Caton and the City […]

  On 21st October, water distribution and garbage collection were cut at the Vučjak migrant camp in north-western Bosnia and Herzegovina. This action was taken by the Mayor of the north-western city of Bihać to put pressure on central government to re-locate migrants who gather on the border with Croatia. But […]