Floods in pictures: Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The worst floods in more than a century have left thousands of people homeless and dozens dead in the Balkans. Three months’ rainfall fell in the space of a couple of days, forcing people from their...
View ArticlePicking up the pieces after the floods: ‘The river took everything from me’
Rabija Dedic could never have imagined that the pretty Starinska river in front of her house would burst into her life and turn it upside down in an instant. “I loved that river and it was that river...
View ArticleBalkan floods: families wait to return home
From the air, the north-east of Bosnia and Herzegovina resembles a vast lake with houses, roads and rail lines submerged. Two weeks ago, the Sava river, which forms a natural border with neighbouring...
View ArticleBalkan floods: mapping a disaster area with some help from NASA
As Red Cross workers continue to help people affected by flooding in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, a team at the British Red Cross is producing maps to support the relief effort. When disaster...
View ArticleBalkan floods: what happens when you lose everything?
Tears role down Vladimir Lazarevic’s cheeks when he looks out over his nearly three hectares of destroyed farmland. “I don’t have anything now because it’s all gone,” he says. Donate to the Balkan...
View ArticleChanging lives in the Balkans after floods
Having never visited or worked in Bosnia and Herzegovina, I’d always associated the Balkan nation with the Bosnian war during the mid-1990s and the horrific events of Srebrenica. Yet this is a...
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