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A refugee crisis is brewing in Bosnia: around 1,500 people are sleeping outside in freezing temperatures, mostly because local authorities have refused to reopen an EU funded facility https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/world/europe/bosnia-migrants.html
Hundreds have stayed in a dismantled camp in the village of Lipa in NW Bosnia, with no running water and electricity. Bosnian armed forces and the Red Cross are now scrambling to accommodate them in heated tents
Nicola Bay @DRC_ngo
Nicola Bay @DRC_ngo
. @AleksandarPanic says some have abandoned the hope of reaching the EU through Croatia and are going back to Serbia. “The camps in Sarajevo are full, and around the Lipa camp, the weather forecast isn’t going in our favor. We don’t know if we’ll be able to heat the tents enough”
Bosnia's state govt has acknowledged that the situation is unsustainable, but has little leverage against local authorities. “We have no functioning mechanism to fix the resistance from authorities in the canton,” security minister Selmo Cikotic tells me https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/world/europe/bosnia-migrants.html