Garbage Piles and Sewage Streams: Kosovo’s Capital Struggles with Sanitation Crisis

Kosovo’s capital, Prishtina, is grappling with a worsening sanitation crisis as mounting piles of uncollected garbage and recurring sewage system failures leave residents in several neighbourhoods frustrated and concerned about public health.

Kosovo Civil Society Demands Institutional Accountability After Latest Femicide
  • October 27, 2026

Civil society organisations are demanding institutional accountability over the handling of Arlinda Zekaj’s case, who was killed hours after reporting domestic violence. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Albin Kurti has given the relevant ministries a deadline to submit reports on how the case was handled.

Kosovo Woman Murdered Hours After Reporting Domestic Violence to Police
  • October 26, 2026

Kosovo authorities have been accused of failing to protect women after a woman was murdered mere hours after reporting domestic violence to the police on Sunday evening.

Children Exploited in Plain Sight Across Kosovo
  • October 24, 2026

Children continue to be exploited through street begging in Kosovo, as investigations stall and inadequate social services struggle to provide lasting protection.

‘Antifascism: Now’ Exhibition Begins International Tour in Prishtina
  • October 23, 2026

The exhibition ‘A Bird with a Stone Wing’ brings together local and international artists to Prishtina to explore antifascist resistance, contested histories, and the meaning of political memory today.

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Beyond Hague Verdicts: The Necessity of Healing the Wounds of Kosovo’s Freedom Fighters

Iliria Kajdomqaj
  • October 5, 2026

“Freedom Is Dearer than Life”: Remembering Kosovo Hero Fehmi Lladrovci Amid Hague Court Convictions

Vaughan Smith
  • September 24, 2026

Beware of Friends Bearing International Tribunals

Petrit Selimi
  • September 18, 2026

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Serbia President Aleksandar Vucic (L), EU High Representative Josep Borrell (2-L) and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti (R) at a meeting of the EU-Kosovo-Serbia Dialogue in Brussels on February 27, 2023. Photo: EPA/STEPHANIE LECOCQ

Two Years On, Kosovo- Serbia Normalisation Deal Still Pending
  • March 18, 2025

The EU-facilitated verbal deal to implement the ‘normalisation’ of relations between Serbia and Kosovo, reached in Ohrid, North Macedonia in 2023, continues to hang in the balance as the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue remains nearly paralysed.

NATO General Secretary (L) and Kosovo's President Vjosa Osmani (R) in Prishtina, Kosovo on March 11, 2025. Photo: Official Facebook Account of Vjosa Osmani

NATO General Secretary Urges Leadership and Dialogue for Lasting Peace in the Balkans
  • March 11, 2025

NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte emphasised the need for leadership and commitment from all parties to secure lasting peace and stability in the Balkans during his visit to Kosovo.

Kosovo Optimistic About Becoming Newest Member of Council of Europe, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister
  • March 22, 2024

The Kosovo deputy minister of Foreign Affairs, Kreshnik Ahmeti, told Kallxo Përnime TV programme that the implementation of the Constitutional Court ruling which awarded land to the Decani Monastery will lead to Kosovo becoming the newest member of the Council of Europe very soon.

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Posters at the opening of Anibar International Animation Festival read: “‘Patriarkati: Fabrikë e Dhunuesve (The Patriarchy: a Factory of Abusers)’; ‘Patriarkati: Armik i Përbashkët (The Patriarchy: Mutual Enemy)’; ‘Patriarkati: Fundi po i vjen (Patriarchy: Its end is coming)’." July 15, 2024. Photo: BIRN

‘Smashing the Patriarchy’: Anibar Film Festival Provides Possibilities for Equality

Anibar International Animation Festival

In its fifteenth edition, the Anibar International Animation Festival, in Kosovo’s town of Peja, urges citizens to raise their voices against patriarchal oppression.
Purple flags at the Sunny Hill festival for this year’s festival’s theme “A Flag for Her”, against gender based violence. Photo: BIRN

Sunny Hill festival

Most attendees praise the new out-of-town site of Kosovo’s Sunny Hill festival, which opened on Thursday – though some are less happy about updated ticket prices.

Prishtina

You might have read that Yahoo article about how the best macchiatos in the word are made in Prishtina. But the city has more than that. A visitor spending a day in the newest capital of Europe should take in a macchiato before walking around some of the interesting places, old cultural objects and bars – without which Prishtina would be known only for good macchiato and nothing else.

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