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Nowhere To Go: Rohingya refugees struggle after huge fire destroys their camp in Bangladesh
A blaze ripped through one of the 32 camps in Cox’s Bazar where Rohingya refugees, who fled the military crackdown in Myanmar, reside. The fire destroyed 2,000 shelters, leaving around 12,000 of them homeless
Brother of slain Rohingya leader blames Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army for Mohibullah's murder
The representative of ethnic Rohingya refugees was killed by unidentified attackers at the Kutupalong refugee camp at Ukhiya in Cox’s Bazar district
US announces USD 180 million aid for Rohingya refugees; calls on Myanmar to stop violence, release the unjustly detained
With this US’s humanitarian assistance for Rohingya refugees has reached more than USD 1.5 billion since August 2017
Five Rohingya feared dead, thousands flee huge blaze at refugee camps in Bangladesh
The fire at Balukhali camp in Cox's Bazar district broke out in the late afternoon and spread quickly through at least four blocks
India rescues 81 Rohingya refugees adrift near Andaman islands; eight dead, one missing
Two Indian Coast Guard ships were sent to help the refugees, 23 of whom were children, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Anurag Srivastava
Bangladesh begins relocating Rohingya refugees to floating island; human rights groups oppose process
The island's facilities are built to accommodate one lakh people, just a fraction of the million Rohingya Muslims who have fled waves of violent persecution in their native Myanmar and are currently living in crowded, squalid refugee camps
Bangladesh's Jaladash community of fisherfolk dwindles under onslaught of climate change, state apathy
Almost no member of the Jaladash community owns any land, so farming or aquaculture are not options open to them. They use the same fishing nets that their ancestors did.
'Social distancing impossible': In Bangladesh's Rohingya refugee camps, aid workers brace for coronavirus outbreak
Aid workers are bracing for a possible outbreak of the coronavirus in one of the world's largest refugee camps in Bangladesh, with officials warning that containing the disease among more than 1 million tightly packed Rohingya Muslims will be a daunting task.
Sixteen dead after boat with 125 Rohingya refugees from Bangladeshi camps capsizes in Bay of Bengal; overcrowding led to accident, says Cox's Bazar police
Coast guard, navy divers and other rescuers recovered the bodies of 14 women, one child and a man
Bangladeshi island Bhasan Char ready to house Rohingya refugees; embankments, houses, hospitals, mosques built says country's refugee, relief and repatriation commissioner
Bhasan Char is ready for habitation, everything has been put in place, Bangladesh refugee, relief and repatriation commissioner Mahbub Alam Talukder said
Myanmar holds repatriation talks with Rohingya refugees; key official hints at ministerial level meeting on sidelines of General Assembly
Buddhist-majority Myanmar has long considered the Rohingya to be 'Bengalis' from Bangladesh even though their families have lived in the country for generations.
Ten dead, 5,000 shelters destroyed at Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh's Cox Bazar by monsoon rains
10 people have died and 5,000 shanty homes have been destroyed since April by monsoon rains in overcrowded Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.
Rohingya repatriation doubtful as terrified refugees reluctant to return to Myanmar; Bangladesh rules out forceful action
Bangladesh's refugee commissioner cast doubt on whether the plan to send first batch of 150 Rohingya, from a preliminary 2,260 slated for return, could go ahead as scheduled on Thursday.
Myanmar to repatriate 2,000 Rohingya from Bangladesh camps in November, claims top official
Officials from Bangladesh and Myanmar announced that some of the 720,000 Muslim Rohingya who fled a deadly military clampdown in the Buddhist-majority country last year would start returning next month.
Bangladesh to move 100,000 Rohingya refugees to shelters in Bhashan Char island from next month
The controversial plan is already behind schedule. Officials previously said they wanted to start moving refugees from overcrowded camps near the border with Myanmar to the island in June before the monsoon began.
In Bangladesh, Rohingya refugees mark first anniversary of 'ethnic cleansing' in Myanmar's Rakhine with songs, prayers
Rohingya refugees on Saturday marked the anniversary of a deadly military crackdown in their Myanmar homeland that drove 700,000 of the persecuted minority into Bangladesh, stateless and confronting a grim future.
WHO praises Bangladesh for curtailing outbreak of deadly diseases among Rohingya migrants
Outbreaks of deadly diseases were "prevented and rapidly curtailed" among nearly 10 lakh Rohingya refugees and thousands of lives were saved due to the efforts of the Bangladesh government, WHO and other health partners in the last one year.
Half of 'lost' Rohingya children who crossed into Bangladesh were orphaned by violence in Myanmar, reveals study
Half the Rohingya children who crossed into Bangladesh without their parents were actually orphaned by violence in Myanmar and not separated from them during the refugee exodus as previously thought, new research showed on Thursday.
Petronet submits proposal to set up $1 billion LNG import facility in Bangladesh
Once Bangladesh government accepts the proposal, a formal pact will be signed between Petronet and Petrobangla
UN chief Antonio Guterres hears of 'unimaginable' atrocities as he visits Rohingya camps, calls situation 'human rights nightmare'
Guterres described the situation of the Rohingya refugees as "a humanitarian and human rights nightmare", as he prepared to tour makeshift shelters crammed with people who escaped a huge Myanmar army operation last year that the UN has likened to ethnic cleansing