By Darko DURIDANSKI VELES, Republic of North Macedonia (AFP) – One day Dimche Ackov had enough of the stress and pollution of urban life and chucked in his job and headed out into the North Macedonia countryside for a fresh start. Nearly 10 years later, Ackov has channelled his burnout into a fully-fledged mission to educate people about living closer to nature. His home, constructed entirely from locally-sourced, natural materials, is now a kind of […]
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North Macedonia gets new prime minister
SKOPJE, Republic of North Macedonia (AFP) — The North Macedonia’s parliament late Sunday elected Social Democrat technocrat Dimitar Kovacevski as prime minister after more than two months of political turmoil in the country. Kovacevski, a former deputy finance minister, succeeds Zoran Zaev who stepped down last month following his party’s heavy defeat in municipal elections. The new coalition cabinet, led by Kovacevski’s Social Democrats (SDSM), was backed by 62 MPs of those present in the […]
New name, old worries: North Macedonia holds presidential vote
by Saska CVETKOVSKA and Nicolas GAUDICHET Agence France-Presse SKOPJE, Republic of North Macedonia (AFP) – North Macedonia holds the first round of its presidential election on Sunday, the country’s first vote under a new name as it struggles with enduring economic problems, cronyism and corruption. The vote for the largely ceremonial post comes less than three months after a deal with Athens on Skopje’s name change came into force, ending a decades-long identity dispute between the […]





