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Rohingya boat capsize: Bodies of four women wash ashore in Chittagong
The victims may belong to the group of Rohingyas whose trawler capsized in the sea Saturday as they tried to flee from Bashan Char Police and the Bangladesh Coast Guard on Monday recovered bodies of four women on the shores of Sandwip upazila in Chittagong, two days after a group of Rohingya refugees went missing […]
Corona Situation Alert Has Been Declared in the Rohingya Refugees Camps of Coxbazar And Teknaf is Under 10 Days Lockdown.
Staff Correspondence Mr Toha., National Operation Officer, Site Management, IOM shared that Due to increasing numbers of positive COVID-19 cases in the Rohingya refugee camps the RRRC office has locked down camps 2W, 3, 4, 15, and 24 and placed additional restrictions on all 34 camps. Team is sharing the official meeting minutes on behalf […]
Between a Refugee Camp and a Silt Island: Rohingyas and the Question of Resettlement
Bangladesh has accommodated more than a million Rohingya refugees at a significant cost to its economy. Nevertheless, it now finds itself subject to international condemnation for relocating some Rohingyas to Bhasan Char — a silt island built up through tidal activity over the last twenty years. Even so, Bangladesh has now relocated 14,032 Rohingyas to […]
Massive Fire Hits Rohingya Refugee Camp Destroying Many Houses
Staff Correspondence A huge fire overnight swept through a crammed Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar destroying at least 500 ramshackle shelters leaving hundreds of people without homes, officials and aid workers said on Thursday. They said the fire erupted in predawn hours on the day at Rohingyas makeshift Nayapara camp but reported no casualty while […]
Bangladesh: Rohingya refugee killed in rival clashes
At least one Rohingya refugee was killed and 10 others injured on Sunday in a gunfight between two rival factions in Cox’s Bazar, a sprawling refugee camp in Bangladesh, an official and sources said. “Some rival groups among Rohingya refugees are involved in a power struggle,” Mahbub Alam Talukder, Bangladesh’s refugee relief and repatriation commissioner, […]
Rohingya need the world’s attention
Defying opposition from the United Nations aid agencies, international humanitarian organisations and non-governmental organisations, Bangladesh moved more than 1,642 Rohingya Muslim refugees to Bhasan Char. This is a small island, that has emerged in Bay of Bengal 20 years back, about 34 miles off the coast of Bangladesh. The people transferred now are only a […]
Rohingya Refugees Are Always In the Hands of Fate As They Are Like Islands- Staff Reports
Staff Reporter Think if you are in a situation where your land and home are no more and you are in another country as refugees. How comfortable you are! How secure you feel! What will you try to do? As far as the situation goes on, Bashanchar is an island and life in the Island […]
Bhasan Char comes alive with Rohingya residents. Now they want to bring in more refugees
Many of them are thinking about advising their relatives in the refugee camps to move to the remote island at the estuary of the Meghna in Noakhali’s Hatia. One of the refugees, Mohammad Hossain, has taken his wife and two children along with him but left behind his parents and the family of his brother […]
Local Reports Says That This Time 600 Rohingya Families Are Going to Bhasanchar.
Staff Reports The government has taken a plan to relocate more than one lakh Rohingyas to Bhasanchar at the temporary transit point set up for Rohingyas at Ukhia College ground. Working towards that goal. In the context of which 600 Rohingya families are going to Bhasanchar in the first step. A temporary transit point has […]
Bangladesh disburses US$ 500,000 to OIC over Rohingya genocide case
Bangladesh has disbursed US$ 500,000 to OIC as foreign ministers of the 57-nation group in their ongoing meeting initiated a fund raising campaign for its West African member Gambia’s legal battle against Myanmar over Rohingya genocide in International Court of Justice (ICJ). “We have already disbursed the fund to the OIC for supporting Gambia in […]Recent Posts
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh, 26th September, 2021 (WAM) — The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) has inaugurated phase 2 of its service projects in refugee camps in Rohingya, Bangladesh, as part of the initiative launched by H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women’s Union (GWU), President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, […]
