News about Macedonia in English, Ver 0.5

A friend from abroad interested in Macedonia asked me to recommend local Twitter users who write in English for him to follow.

I could not identify many users from Macedonia who tweet in English only. Locals mostly use a mix of their own native language and English - which can be confusing for those who don't speak their native language.

(There are some expats who live in Macedonia that I know of: @Balkanalysis, @SamVaknin, @hschenker, and Macedonians who live abroad like @UZI9mmmm.)

Therefore, I set up a group account to filter and share such content and invited some like-minded friends to contribute with their editing too: @Macedonia_en.

Web sources in English about Macedonia are pretty scarce too. I'll list several with short introductions bellow, please contribute with your information if there are more.

There are but a few media outlets based in Macedonia that provide news in English:

• MIA - Macedonian Information Agency - owned by the state, presents mainly brief news and interviews with government officials
  
• MakFax - private news agency, owned by major IT company
• Balkanalysis.com Macedonia section offers reportages, interviews and analyses of various key issues, often connected to regional and wider geo-strategic developments

International civil society or nonprofit initiatives:

• Global Voices Online Macedonia page gathers all GVO articles related to the country in one place. The content is mainly based on reporting of social media conversations and issues not covered by commercial media. (Twitter: @globalvoices)
• OneWorld SEE Macedonia section offers regular news from the region, mainly focused on civil society activities (@owpsee)
• Balkan Insight Macedonia Page and its parent organization BIRN Balkan Investigative Reporting Network both offer reporting by professional journalists and recaps of the media coverage (@BalkanInsight). 
• Cafe Babel: Macedonia, part of a network of volunteer journalists from Europe. (@cafebabel_tweet)

CSOs from Macedonia:

• Metamorphosis Foundation's website is fully available in Macedonian, English and Albanian. News are divided into two parts: the activities of the CSO, and news related to its area of interest - development of information society: human rights online, privacy & security, freedom of expression, citizen participation in policy-making, capacity building of the civil sector, inclusion and protection of disadvantaged groups... in Macedonia, and abroad. (@fmeta)

Several other NGOs also run regularly updated versions of their websites in English.

• Foundation Open Society Institute Macedonia (@fosim)
• Macedonian Center for European Training  (@mcetmceo)
• NGO Info-Centre
• Macedonian Center for International Cooperation (@mcms_mk) 
• Mladi Info the website is entirely in English, and covers much wider area (@mladiinfo)

Please use the comments option to inform on other sources who actively publish online or tweet about Macedonia in English.