Debate raises pandemic concerns for Kosovo’s minority communities

Lack of timely information in minority languages and an absence of funding or specific policies to assist Kosovo’s Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities in facing the coronavirus pandemic were among concerns raised during a Jeta ne Kosove debate this week.

Irregularities in journal publishing UP professors exposed

Despite using a fake name and fake university, the Organization for Improving the Quality of Education, ORCA, managed to publish a fictitious research paper in a journal that has previously featured University of Prishtina professors, allowing them to qualify for academic promotion.

42,000 new diaspora register to vote

Following the deadline for voter registration on September 10, the Central Election Commission announced a record number of voters from Kosovo’s diaspora have registered to vote in the October 6 parliamentary election.

Two arrested for creating Viber group to avoid police

Kosovo Police arrested two individuals on Wednesday suspected to be the creators of the ‘Radar’ group on Viber, used by thousands of Kosovars to avoid the police controls and speeding fines across the country.

Women’s shelter at risk due to electricity bill

A shelter for women affected by domestic violence in Prishtina is threatened with closure as a result of lack of funding, putting them more than 7,000 euros in debt to the Kosovo Energy Distribution Service, KEDS.