The secrecy surrounding a newly-built settlement in northern Kosovo highlights the problems facing Serbs who have returned to Kosovo after the war – and how they need security and jobs as well as houses.

On windswept Little Zvecan Hill, overlooking the town of Mitrovica in the north of Kosovo, protected by a barbed-wire fence and wrapped in a cloak of secrecy, a settlement called Sunny Valley is taking shape.

Sunny Valley began in May 2016 as a joint venture of the Serbian government and the Orthodox Church as a future home for Kosovo Serbs who since the war in 1999 have been unable to return to their homes south of Ibar River which divides Mitrovica between Serbs and Albanians.

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