– DHAKA Bangladesh (AA) – The UN has appealed for scaling up funds for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. The UN also made a fresh allocation of $8 million for Rohingya refugees staying in camps in Bangladesh’s southeastern Cox’s Bazar district and on the island of Bhasan Char. “This allocation is especially important in the light [&...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A Myanmar delegation is expected to visit Rohingya refugees living on the southeast coast of Bangladesh for the third time aiming to begin their repatriation in the next three months, a Bangladeshi official has confirmed. A high-level Bangladeshi delegation is in Myanmar to attend Chinese-mediated talks to begin ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – French President Emmanuel Macron is scheduled to visit Bangladesh on September 10, Bangladesh’s Foreign Ministry has said. This will be the first time a French president visits the South Asian nation in 33 years. Prior to his Bangladesh visit, Macron will be in India for the G-20 summit scheduled for Septem...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A high-level delegation from Bangladesh reached Myanmar on Monday in order to lead a Chinese-mediated meeting on Rohingya repatriation. A list of over 3,000 Rohingya under a pilot program has been sent to Myanmar to verify and a possible repatriation could begin under the mediation of China, according to Banglade...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – At least 342 people died of dengue this August, the deadliest month ever in Bangladesh since the health authorities started recording dengue cases in 2000. On the last day of August, the country reported 17 deaths due to dengue, including 16 in the capital Dhaka, according to the Directorate General of […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) — Uprooted from their ancestral lands, a group of young Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh are trying to keep their heritage alive among their community’s children and teenagers. Mohammed Rezuwan Khan, 26, is one of those high school graduates, shunned from higher education in his native Rakhine, a state in western ...
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – – AFP Thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees rallied at camps in Bangladesh on Friday to demand their safe return to Myanmar on the sixth anniversary of the violence that drove them from their homes. Bangladesh is home to around a million members of the stateless minority, most of whom fled the [&hell...
ISTANBUL (AA) – On the eve of the sixth anniversary of the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar, human rights defenders have renewed the call for granting full rights to the persecuted community. “Rohingya are citizens of the country and should be seen by our fellow citizens as valued members of the pro-democratic revolution,” said Zaw Win, […]...
