Heavy rain in Serbia and Bosnia has caused rivers to flood, killing some and forcing thousands to flee as the water rises and landslides bury homes.
Aminatta Forna tells Maya Jaggi that Africa scares the West, but that there’s as much reason to be scared in Croatia as in Sierra Leone.
The surface waters of the Danube River, Europe’s busiest waterway, have frozen completely for the first time in over 20 years in Bulgaria.
If you do not understand the politics, you do not understand the basics of the concept.
Serb President Boris Tadic have urged Kosovo Serbs to refrain from violence, hours after ethnic Serbs torched a border crossing in the north.
The arrest of Ratko Mladic is a major step towards reconciliation in the Balkans, analysts have said, but the region is still a long way from healing.
Serbian police have arrested Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb military leader wanted by the UN for war crimes committed during the Bosnian war.
Serbian officials say they have located the site where a World War II royalist guerrilla was executed as a traitor by postwar communist authorities.
Serbian President Boris Tadic appeals to the majority of UN countries who have not recognised Kosovo’s independence to maintain that position.
In a tit-for-tat agreement, the SA government has secured the support of Serbia in SA’s bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
Serbian lawmakers issued an apology to the Bosnian Muslim victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre on Wednesday, ending years of denial.
Serbia played their maiden international, independently, in 2006, winning 3-1 in an away game to Czech Republic.
Despite overwhelming evidence of genocide, the ‘butcher of Bosnia’ denies all. Ian Traynor reports.
The chief war crimes prosecutor in Serbia expects genocide suspect Ratko Mladic to be arrested this year due to progress in the hunt.
Unexploded cluster bombs threaten thousands of Serbian civilians almost 10 years after they were dropped during Nato’s 1999 air war over Kosovo.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martti Ahtisaari said on Friday that Serbia would have no option but to accept the new Balkan state.
Anné Mariè du Preez Bezdrob, a former peacekeeper, recalls a meeting with the Bosnian Serb wartime leader.
The Bevanda restaurant sits at the end of a residential street in Belgrade. It was here that a man realised that a fellow diner was Ratko Mladic.
Change in Belgrade’s political climate ended 12 years on the run for Radovan Karadzic, Europe’s most wanted man.
The old man on the 73 bus looked like a monk. His bushy white beard obscured half his face and his long white hair was tied in a top-knot.
