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US announces USD 180 million aid for Rohingya refugees; calls on Myanmar to stop violence, release the unjustly detained
• 3 years agoWith 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
• 4 years agoThe 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
• 4 years agoTwo 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
• 4 years agoThe 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
The Third Pole • 5 years agoAlmost 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
• 5 years agoAid 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
• 5 years agoCoast 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
• 5 years agoBhasan 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
• 6 years agoBuddhist-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
• 6 years ago10 people have died and 5,000 shanty homes have been destroyed since April by monsoon rains in overcrowded Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.