Chief Adviser to the interim government Muhammad Yunus today called for an expedited third-country resettlement of Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh.
This World Refugee Day, there is an urgent need to invest in collective efforts to allow the Rohingya to become self-reliant.
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After a two-year pause, the conflict between the Arakan Army (AA) and Myanmar’s military junta has resurged in Rakhine.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday (September 20, 2022) reiterated her call to the international community and the United Nations (UN) to play intensified role in solving the Rohingya crisis by repatriating the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals to their motherland.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has appreciated Bangladesh’s overall migration management and gradual prevention of irregular migration enabling regular migration.
Arab film and TV star and World Food Programme (WFP) Goodwill Ambassador Hend Sabry visits the Rohingya families in the refugee camps of Bangladesh to show that suffering has no borders and humanity has no boundaries.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says the government will install barbed wire fences around the Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar soon, aiming to stop the spread of Rohingyas across the country.
Bangladesh will brief the diplomats stationed in Dhaka about the latest situation over the Rohingya issue tomorrow as two consecutive efforts to begin the repatriation of the displaced people failed amid their unwillingness and trust-deficit among them.
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday her government was doing its best to protect everyone in the strife-torn state of Rakhine, as the estimated number of Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh leapt by 18,000 in one day, to 164,000.
Visiting Turkish First Lady Emine Erdogan has affirmed that the government of Turkey will stand beside the Rohingyas, who have fled to Bangladesh in the face of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar's Rakhine.
Dhaka asks Myanmar to de-escalate the ongoing violence in Rakhine state to stop the ongoing influx of Rohingyas into Bangladesh. The call comes when Charge’d Affairs of Myanmar Embassy in Dhaka, responding to a summons, meets director general (Southeast Asia Wing) of foreign ministry in Dhaka.
The UN Migration Agency, IOM, in Bangladesh has appealed for an immediate fund of US$ 18 million for humanitarian assistance as tens of thousands of Rohingya continue to stream into Bangladesh since August 25.
The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) requests the government to give shelter to the Rohingyas fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.
At least 10 bodies of Rohingya refugees, who were fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, are recovered after a boat capsized in Naf river in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.
Myanmar has been laying landmines across a section of its border with Bangladesh for the past three days, said two government sources in Dhaka, adding that the purpose may have been to prevent the return of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence.
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi blames "terrorists" for "a huge iceberg of misinformation" on the violence in Rakhine state but makes no mention of the nearly 125,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled over the border to Bangladesh since August 25.
Urging on all sides to deescalate tensions, the European Commission says that it is committed to putting in all efforts to restore aid delivery in Rakhine state of Myanmar.
Amnesty International says the Myanmar authorities' restrictions on international aid in Rakhine state is putting tens of thousands of lives at risk in a region where mainly Rohingya people are already suffering horrific abuses from a disproportionate military campaign.
