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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Farmers in Bangladesh are facing drought in a season that has historically been marked with rain. While July is supposed to receive the highest amount of rainfall, the country received less than half of the average rainfall this July, the lowest in 41 years, according to the weather office. Adverse weather […]
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AA) – Rohingya Muslims are finding it hard to educate their children in Bangladesh which hosts more than 1.2 million refugees who fled a brutal military crackdown in their home country’s Rakhine state in August 2017. Bangladesh considers the Rohingya as displaced citizens of Myanmar and not refugees. So the Rohin...
TEHRAN (AA) – Women were allowed for the first time on Thursday to watch a league match between two prominent football clubs at Azadi Stadium in Tehran. Around 500 female fans made their way to the iconic football stadium in western Tehran to watch Esteghlal go against Mes Kerman in the Persian Gulf Pro League. […]
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees said Thursday that political priorities, shifting regional dynamics and the emergence of new humanitarian crises have deprioritized the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In his briefing to the UN Security Council, Philippe Lazzarini painted a bleak picture o...
Kutupalong, Bangladesh (AFP): Thousands of Rohingya refugees held “Genocide Remembrance Day” rallies on Thursday across a huge network of camps in Bangladesh, marking five years since fleeing a military offensive in Myanmar. In August 2017, around 750,000 of the mostly Muslim minority streamed over the border with mainly Buddhist M...
Rabat, Morocco (AFP): Germany gave its backing on Thursday to a Moroccan autonomy plan for resolving the Western Sahara conflict, days after the North African country’s king urged allies to “clarify their positions.” A joint statement issued at the end of a visit to Rabat by Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said that “...
Mbera, Mauritanie (AFP): Thousands of Malians are fleeing to the Mbera refugee camp just across the border in Mauritania as security in the country becomes untenable. Central Mali is a hotspot of the violence that has metastasised across the Sahel, leaving thousands dead and millions displaced. Mbera serves as a haven not only from fighters [&...
BRUSSELS (AA) – Top diplomats of the EU, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, the UK, and US have called on Thursday to hold perpetrators accountable for human rights violations against Myanmar’s Rohingya minority. In a joint statement marking the fifth anniversary of the “brutal” military campaign against the Muslim minority, the for...
LONDON (AA) – The UK has said that it will work with Albania to expedite the removal of Albanians entering the country illegally. Home Secretary Priti Patel and Albania’s Interior Affairs Minister Bledi Cuci agreed to “intensify joint work to tackle the problem of large numbers of Albanians taking the treacherous journey to the UK [&hell...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Amid stalled efforts to repatriate Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh to Myanmar, many people from the persecuted ethnic minority are seeking a way out and playing into the hands of human smugglers. Hundreds of Rohingya refugees take perilous journeys on boats through the Bay of Bengal to reach Malaysia, Thailand an...
