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KP: Man went missing in Gorazdevac, domestic violence in Mitrovica North (KoSSev)

By   /  25/07/2019  /  Development/Humanitarian  /  Comments Off on KP: Man went missing in Gorazdevac, domestic violence in Mitrovica North (KoSSev)

Montenegrin female reported to the police that her son Kosovo Serb left the house in the early hours on July 21 in Gorazdevac village and his whereabouts has remained unknown since then, KoSSev portal reports. The police registered a case as “missing person.” Meanwhile, Albanian women in Mitrovica North reported to the police that her […]

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‘Can you eat asphalt, pal?’ (Prishtina Insight)

By   /  25/07/2019  /  Development/Humanitarian  /  Comments Off on ‘Can you eat asphalt, pal?’ (Prishtina Insight)

In the Dukagjini region – Peja, Decan and Gjakova – over 70 villages lack drinking water, and many suffer from inadequate sewage systems. Meanwhile, the Kosovo Government is preoccupied with the construction of a one billion euro motorway across Dukagjini soil. If the new highway named ‘Dukagjini’ is constructed, the lanes of the motorway would […]

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MLGA, USAID and 14 municipalities sign agreement on cooperation (Radio Mitrovica sever) 

By   /  25/07/2019  /  Development/Humanitarian  /  Comments Off on MLGA, USAID and 14 municipalities sign agreement on cooperation (Radio Mitrovica sever) 

Ministry of Local Government Administration (MLGA), USAID and fourteen municipalities in Kosovo have signed the agreement of cooperation in the amount of EUR 12 million, Radio Mitrovica sever reports. Five-year project aims to improve involvement of the citizens in decision-making processes, development of inter-municipal cooperation and improvement of the legal framework, the Radio added. “Strengthening […]

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Bostane: Strong society needs strong women (RTV Puls, Radio kontakt plus)

By   /  24/07/2019  /  Development/Humanitarian  /  Comments Off on Bostane: Strong society needs strong women (RTV Puls, Radio kontakt plus)

Representatives of US KFOR and OSCE Mission in Kosovo donated yesterday blankets, mattresses, pillows and quilts to the Women’s Support and Development Centre in Bostane village to help women victims of the domestic violence, RTV Puls reports. They also said creating a strong society requires strong women. This donation is a small token that women […]

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Kosovo Launches Large-Scale Action to Seize Illegal Arms (Balkan Insight)

By   /  24/07/2019  /  Development/Humanitarian  /  Comments Off on Kosovo Launches Large-Scale Action to Seize Illegal Arms (Balkan Insight)

Kosovo Police raided sites across the country on Wednesday in the hunt for illegal weapons, after a deadline to register arms expired in June. Kosovo Police began a large-scale operation in the early hours of Wednesday morning to confiscate illegal arms, targeting numerous locations across the country, police spokesperson Bajram Krasniqi confirmed to BIRN. He […]

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The 14-year-old battle over property heritage (Radio Free Europe)

By   /  22/07/2019  /  Development/Humanitarian  /  Comments Off on The 14-year-old battle over property heritage (Radio Free Europe)

It’s been 14 years that Aferdita Statovci from the village of Sllatine, Fushe Kosovo, is seeking justice to return to her house. Aferdita says that she was 10 when her father passed away in 1998, and when her father’s relatives sent her out of the house where she was living with her mother, claiming that […]

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Discredited even before losing credentials? (Prishtina Insight)

By   /  19/07/2019  /  Development/Humanitarian  /  Comments Off on Discredited even before losing credentials? (Prishtina Insight)

Amidst wranglings between government officials on one side and educational experts and the opposition on the other, Prishtina Insight presents a snapshot of the issues affecting the three educational institutions that lost their accreditation this week. See at: https://prishtinainsight.com/discredited-even-before-losing-credentials-mag/

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Person arrested for threatening journalist, Vehbi Kajtazi (media)

By   /  18/07/2019  /  Development/Humanitarian  /  Comments Off on Person arrested for threatening journalist, Vehbi Kajtazi (media)

Kosovo Police arrested a person after he is suspected of making continuous threats to journalist and founder of Insajderi news website, Vehbi Kajtazi, several online media outlets report. The suspect is reported to have been convicted of physically assaulting Kajtazi and was released on bail two years ago.

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Debate sparks after three public universities lose accreditation (Prishtina Insight)

By   /  17/07/2019  /  Development/Humanitarian  /  Comments Off on Debate sparks after three public universities lose accreditation (Prishtina Insight)

Local and international actors clashed over the decision to withdraw accreditation of three public universities in Kosovo on Tuesday, which left thousands of students uncertain about their enrollment plans for the next academic year. Government officials condemned the decision of the National Quality Council, NCQ, to withdraw the accreditation of public universities of Peja, Mitrovica […]

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“Delimitation is a solution in the absence of solution” (KoSSev, RTV KIM)

By   /  16/07/2019  /  Development/Humanitarian  /  Comments Off on “Delimitation is a solution in the absence of solution” (KoSSev, RTV KIM)

“If you tell Serbs that Kosovo independence is solution – that means destabilization. Therefore, the solution should be sought within the framework of UN SC Resolution 1244“, President of the European Serb Movement, Rada Trajkovic has said. Kosovo Assembly MP Dukagjin Gorani believes there would be solution and that it will be “consequential,” KoSSev portal […]

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Strpce residents again prevented reconstruction of mini-hydro power plant (KoSSev)

By   /  12/07/2019  /  Development/Humanitarian  /  Comments Off on Strpce residents again prevented reconstruction of mini-hydro power plant (KoSSev)

This morning around 9.00 hrs “Metkos Group” company from Pristina tried again to start the works on the reconstruction of mini-hydro power plant at the place called Oberreke in Strpce. According to KoSSev portal around 50 residents from Strpce gathered at the location to prevent the works and they managed to stop it. In mid-February […]

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Female Kosovo Journalist Targeted by ‘Evil’ Online Threats (Balkan Insight)

By   /  12/07/2019  /  Development/Humanitarian  /  Comments Off on Female Kosovo Journalist Targeted by ‘Evil’ Online Threats (Balkan Insight)

N1 Television correspondent Zana Cimili, who was threatened with murder on social media by an anti-Albanian nationalist, told BIRN that journalists must challenge attacks on media freedom and keep on reporting the news. “This person’s words were so calculated, so evil. That’s why this time it genuinely made me feel threatened and scared,” Zana Cimili […]

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