The education of around 2,30,000 Rohingya children in Bangladesh is under threat due to an acute and deepening funding crisis, according to the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund.
At least 82 Rohingyas reportedly returned spontaneously to Myanmar’s Rakhine state last week, the first known instance of voluntary repatriation since the mass exodus of 2017, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees...
The United Nations said on Friday that it feared that 427 Rohingya, Myanmar’s persecuted Muslim minority, had perished at sea in two shipwrecks on May 9 and 10 off the Myanmar coast....
Saudi Arabia’s humanitarian arm the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre donated 667 tonnes of dates to support Rohingya children in Bangladesh...
THE foreign affairs adviser’s statement of on April 27 to the media on humanitarian channel sparked debates and discussions across political, security and academic domains. The adviser said, ‘According to the United Nations’ proposal, Bangladesh has agreed in principle to allow a humanitarian corridor to Rakhine. It will be a humanitarian passage. However, we have...
A UN expert said on Thursday he was investigating ‘credible reports’ that Rohingya refugees were forced off an Indian navy ship into the Andaman Sea, in what would be an ‘unconscionable’ act.
Foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Sunday warned that the prolonged Rohingya crisis is an escalating threat to both Bangladesh and regional stability, urging stronger international action for a durable lasting solution to the crisis.
The Rapid Action Battalion on Saturday detained 35 Rohingyas at Khazurtala embankment area in Chattogram while they were attempting to flee from Bhasan Char...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has recently pressed the Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner to ensure accommodation of 1.13 lakh more Rohingyas amid uncertainty of repatriation...
The Election Commission has adopted a zero-tolerance policy against the inclusion of Rohingyas in the national voter list, announcing that any person to be identified as Rohingya will be removed immediately.
Chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus was apprised of overall security aspects including the border situation and Rohingya crisis in a meeting at his residence-cum office Jamuna.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Tuesday told the UN Security Council that the Bangladesh interim government chose to engage with the parties to the conflict in the Rakhine state to pursue a solution to the Rohingya crisis that...
Bangladesh interim government’s chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at a discussion on Wednesday in Qatar’s capital Doha said that prolonged stay of Rohingyas posed enormous challenges to Bangladesh and might affect regional security and stability if the crisis lingered further...
Ambassador of Japan to Bangladesh, Saida Shinichi, visited the Hakimpara Primary Healthcare Centre on Thursday to observe services, supported by medical equipment provided through the Japanese embassy under the grant assistance for Grass-Roots Human Security Projects...
Sweden has provided $12.7 million of vital humanitarian assistance through eight partners in Bangladesh...
Two United States high officials, deputy assistant secretary at the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Nicole Ann Chulick arrived at Dhaka on Tuesday, and deputy assistant secretary at the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs...
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has assured Dhaka to provide its continued support to Bangladesh, especially on Rohingya crisis.
Bangladesh has been in discussions with the Arakan Army, an ethnic armed group based in Rakhine, under a United Nations initiative for restoring stability in the state of Myanmar with an aim to send back the Rohingya people sheltered in Bangladesh...
Bangladesh Navy on Tuesday detained 214 Rohingyas travelling to Malaysia illegally by a fishing boat in the Bay of Bengal.
Drawing a parallel between the prolonged Rohingya crisis and the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, CA’s high representative Khalilur Rahman on Tuesday said there is ‘our own Gaza (Rohingya) on our shoulders, yet there are no protests for it’.
A court in Bandarban on Monday sent Myanmar’s Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army chief Ataullah Abu Ammar Jununi to jail after rejecting his bail petition in two separate cases filed over the death of a member of DGFI....
Chief adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has met former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, seeking his valuable support in strengthening bilateral relations and contributing to the resolution of the Rohingya crisis to help bring a lasting peace to the region...
Myanmar has identified 1,80,000 Rohingya refugees from a list of 8,00,000 sheltered in Bangladesh as eligible for repatriation to Myanmar.
This week 17,000 tonnes of the United States food aid for Rohingya refugees have arrived in Chattogram of Bangladesh, according to a press note issued on Wednesday...
The UN’s food agency said Friday it had halted its plans to halve rations for the million-plus Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh after a successful appeal for more foreign aid.
Bangladesh in a major development on Friday welcomed Chinese companies to participate in the Teesta River Comprehensive Management and Restoration Project, in which both China and India had earlier shown interest, as the top leaders of the two friendly countries...
Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Thursday called upon Asian leaders to offer their support for ensuring the repatriation of Rohingyas sheltered in Bangladesh to their homeland, Myanmar.
Interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus is going to discuss cooperation in water management, healthcare and Rohingya repatriation besides economic and military cooperation in his meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping in Beijing during his visit to China.
The United Nations announced on Monday it was seeking nearly $1 billion to provide life-saving aid this year for some 1.5 million Rohingya refugees and their hosts in Bangladesh.
Bodies of six Rohingya people and one missing Border Guard Bangladesh member were recovered from the sea on Sunday...
