NGOs working for Rohingya must disclose financial details, Bangladesh minister says

February 19, 2023

The government will ask the NGOs to disclose details of their money given by different organisations to see how much money they spent for Rohingyas. “There are allegations about many NGOs that they do terror financing…It will be investigated,” Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque revealed this information while talking to reporters after the […]Continue Reading

Four envoys visit Rohingyas in Bhasan Char

February 17, 2023

NEWS DESK Ambassadors of Japan, China, France and Indonesia visited Noakhali’s Bhasan Char Rohingya camps on Friday. Japanese Ambassador Iwama Kiminori, Chinese Ambassador Yao Wen, French Ambassador Marie Masdupuy and Indonesian Ambassador Heru Hartanto Subolo reached Bhasan Char on a helicopter around 10:30am. They were accompanied by UN Resident Coordinator Gwyn Continue Reading

UN to cut food aid for Rohingya refugees, citing fund shortfall

February 17, 2023

NEWS DESK The United Nations plans to slash food aid to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, blaming a funding shortfall for cuts that agencies warned on Friday would deepen food insecurity and malnutrition in the world’s largest refugee settlement, Reuters reports. About 730,000 Rohingya, a persecuted mostly Muslim minority from Myanmar’s Rakhine state, fled to Bangladesh Continue Reading

Gang helping Rohingyas to get NID, passport busted

February 16, 2023

NEWS DESK Police on Thursday arrested four persons for their alleged involvement in helping Rohingya people to get birth certificates, national identity cards and passports using fake addresses in Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar. The lawmen also arrested two Rohingya youths. Detective Branch of Chattogram Metropolitan Police arrested them at the GEC area on early Thursday […]Continue Reading

Rohingya woman killed, leader injured in camps

February 16, 2023

NEWS DESK A Rohingya woman was shot dead and a leader was shot at in Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar on Thursday. Armed Police Battalion 8 senior assistant superintendent Md Faruk Ahmed said that a Rohingya youth Arafat shot the woman, Nur Haba, 27, at Leda camp of Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar at about 10:45am […]Continue Reading

Washington deals with root causes of Rohingya crisis: US State Dept

February 15, 2023

NEWS DESK The United States (US) has been dealing with root causes of Rohingya crisis alongside extending support to Dhaka to tackle over a million of the forcibly displaced minority Myanmar people, a senior visiting State Department official said in Dhaka today (Feb 15). “We are working every day not only to try to help […]Continue Reading

Chollet to discuss Rohingya crisis, Bangladesh-US security partnership 

February 15, 2023

NEWS DESK US State Department Counselor Derek Chollet will discuss the coordination of responding to the Rohingya crisis and the security partnership between the US and Bangladesh during his Dhaka visit. Chollet, scheduled to arrive in Dhaka this evening (Feb 14), will also discuss strengthening Dhaka-Washington cooperation in international fora during his engagement with Continue Reading

Gambian FM seeks more funds for running Rohingya genocide case

February 15, 2023

NEWS DESK Gambian foreign minister Dr Mamadou Tangara today (Feb 12) hoped that more countries will make contribution to Gambia regarding Rohingya genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as the African nation has been facing fund crisis to run the case. “We need concrete action. Help us to make more noises so […]Continue Reading

‘Love Gifts’: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh donate 700 blankets, 200 jackets to Türkiye

February 15, 2023

NEWS DESK Poverty-stricken Rohingya refugees in squalid makeshift camps in southern Bangladesh could not remain inactive during Türkiye’s largest humanitarian crisis since the devastating twin earthquakes, as they collected money and purchased 700 blankets and 200 jackets for Turkish people affected in 10 southern provinces, Anadolu Agency reports. “Türkiye has Continue Reading

Japan, IOM sign $5.7 million assistance to Rohingyas, host communities in Bangladesh

February 14, 2023

Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Iwama Kiminori on Monday said Japan would continue to work towards durable solutions including early repatriation of Rohingyas to Myanmar, while cooperating with international organizations including IOM for better living conditions for refugees and host communities. Finding durable solutions in this crisis will be conducive to our pursuit Continue Reading