No two cities are equal, and some outshine the rest, but Armin Amidžić (33) is determined not to let his hometown of Bihac become a bore. That determination and hometown pride has fueled Armin’s years of civic activism to make Bihac beloved by tourists and residents alike. And he’s […]

  Fatih Keskin, a Turkish national who was threatened with deportation from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) under still unexplained circumstances, left the Immigration Center in East Sarajevo on Monday after spending almost two weeks there. “I thank to parents, school in Bihac and all those who have supported me in […]

  The Richmond Park Schools Parents’ Council in Bihac has expressed dissatisfaction with the treatment of Fatih Keskin, the school’s principal, and is seeking his urgent release. The press release stated that they had been informed that Keskin had been arrested on December 3 and that as parents they were […]

  “The living conditions of hundreds of human beings in the improvised Vučjak camp are shameful. That camp should have never been opened in the first place. It is now urgent to relocate these people and provide them with decent accommodations. I was assured by the State Minister of Security […]

  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 […]