Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism

Bosnia's stalled recovery

21 April 2016
In this photo taken on Sunday, March 20, 2016, Fadila Efendic prays near the graves of her husband Hamed and son Fejzo, at Memorial Centre Potocari near Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

Twenty years after Europe's bloodiest war since World War II, Bosnia is a country riven by ethnic divisions and poverty.

After its recent application to join the European Union, Bosnians and their leaders will have to confront their political divisions and the systemic corruption that has thwarted efforts to make it a functioning democracy.

On this edition of Global Journalist, a look at Bosnia's halting recovery from civil war and the challenges of transforming a dysfunctional government.

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