DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The efforts to repatriate displaced Rohingya Muslim refugees have been delayed due to the cease-fire breakdown between the junta regime and rebels in Burma, a top Burmese diplomat in Dhaka has said. “Efforts toward the repatriation of displaced persons had been delayed due to the cease-fire breakdown by the Araka...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh’s coral rich St. Martin Island is facing a food crisis as communication remains suspended due to intermittent firing from across the border with Burma, officials said. The small island of about 8 square kilometers is located in the northeastern part of the Bay of Bengal with natural beauty which makes [&hell...
Dakar, Senegal — AFP Hundreds of participants in a Malian national dialogue mainly boycotted by the opposition have recommended that military rulers who took power in 2020 keep power for several more years. They also said that when elections were eventually held junta chief Colonel Assimi Goita should be a candidate for the presidency, a...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Internally displaced Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar’s Rakhine state have fled to Bangladesh in a new wave of forced migration in search of safety, refuge, and food as clashes between military junta forces and rebel groups escalate. Many have crossed into the Rohingya refugee camp in southeastern Cox’s Bazar,...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The UN human rights chief has said that the Rohingya Muslim community have been hit hard by the ongoing battles between the ruling junta in Myanmar and the opposition groups. Rakhine State has been “particularly hard hit” since fighting restarted there last November, said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk....
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – The military junta in Mali has said that presidential elections scheduled for February 2024 for a return to civilian power will be postponed. The two rounds, set for February 4 and 18, 2024, “will be slightly postponed for technical reasons” including financial difficulties for review of voter lists, g...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The Myanmar junta government has restricted exports to Bangladesh through ports after Bangladeshi banks froze the accounts of two Myanmar state banks, according to media reports. The junta prohibited the export of various food commodities to Bangladesh via Maungdaw in Rakhine State after the decision by Banglades...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The UN chief has pinned hope on the Indonesia, Laos and Malaysia troika on finding a political solution to the Myanmar crisis. “We are strongly hopeful that after Indonesia, with Lao PDR (official name of Laos) and also the Troika – Indonesia, Malaysia and Lao PDR – ASEAN will remain totally committed […]
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...
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...
