A group of activists and members of the public have undertaken an initiative to clean rubbish from Lake Komani in the north of Albania. Some 200 volunteers, accompanied by activists, local companies, and tour guides, took to the water to painstakingly remove tonnes of trash from the water. A part of a broader initiative to
A first instance court in Albania decided for two arrested air traffic controllers to remain in prison and one in house arrest. The Court of Tirana approved the prosecution request on Saturday not to release the three arrested air traffic controllers who face charges of abuse of office. Armando Fezga and Muhin Mezini will await
President Ilir Meta has called on Prime Minister Edi Rama to be calm and not create “artificial tension” in the country, following the government’s warning that the army would soon take over the only international airport in the country. In a press conference from Vlora on Wednesday evening, Meta said the “artificial tension” created by
Albanian army and police will take control over the country’s only international airport following Prime Minister Edi Rama’s accusations against President Ilir Meta of attempting to stage a coup d’etat. It comes three weeks ahead of general election of April 25. Minister of Infrastructure Belinda Balluku announced in a press conference that the government will
Prime Minister Edi Rama accused President Ilir Meta of attempting to stage a coup on Wednesday by agitating air traffic controllers of Albcontrol to suspend their work at the Tirana airport, thus bringing air traffic to a halt. Air traffic controllers presented their supervisors with their “temporary inability to work” notice last evening. Their lawyer
Prime Minister Edi Rama will resign as the Chairman of the Socialist Party if he loses the general election on 25 April. Asked by journalist Nisida Tufa on News 24, Rama said; “If I leave the Prime Minister’s Office, I will still serve the Socialist Party, but not doing what does not belong to me.”
A coalition of human rights organizations and those supporting people with disabilities have written to the Commissioner of Human Rights at the Council of Europe Dunja Mijatovic, the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations Michelle Bachelet to bring to their attention to “repetitive discriminatory language towards people with disabilities, used by Albanian
Albania was ordered to pay €110 million to Italian businessman Francesco Becchetti following the “politically motivated” government closure of his Agon television channel in 2015. On Friday, an ad hoc panel of International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), an arbitration court, rejected a request by the Albanian government for the annulment of the
The newly elected Prime Minister sat on a bus filled with family, friends, and supporters, smiling, cheering, and singing “Sala fell from the fig tree” to his sworn political enemy and just-defeated opponent, Sali Berisha. The controversial old-guard politician with an autocratic bent had been on the scene for over two decades. The modern, charismatic,
On the 22nd anniversary of the massacre by Serbian forces of 49 members of the Berisha family in Suhareka, Kosovo, the family hopes to find 23 bodies that still remain missing. Showing evidence of the massacre, Hysni Berisha, a family relative recalls the day of the tragedy to Exit. “NATO bombing started on March 24,