Japan provides $1 million emergency food assistance to WFP for Rohingyas

March 4, 2023

NEWS DESK The government of Japan has decided to provide $1 million emergency food assistance to World Food Programme (WFP) for Rohingya refugees. Due to a dire funding shortfall, WFP is forced to cut back its life-saving food assistance for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar. Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Iwama Kiminori on Friday said following […]Continue Reading

Rohingya crisis not forgotten: EU high representative

March 3, 2023

High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell has assured of the international organisation’s continuous humanitarian support to deal with the needs of the Rohingyas in Bangladesh. “This crisis is not forgotten. The EU remains one of the largest humanitarian donors, with €287 million since 2017,” he Continue Reading

Bangladesh urges int’l community to help ensure Rohingya repatriation

March 2, 2023

NEWS DESK Foreign Minister A K Abdul Momen today (March 2) called on the international community including the G20 to help ensure repatriation of forcibly displaced Rohingyas to Myanmar without further delay. “The prolonged stay of Rohingyas is creating huge security problems with ramifications across the region and they may also be a potential target […]Continue Reading

WFP ration cuts to Rohingya may force child marriage, prostitution, say refugee organizations

March 2, 2023

Twelve Rohingya community organizations on Wednesday (March 1) expressed concern about the World Food Program’s (WFP) decision to reduce food rations for refugees, fearing that it would force Rohingya living in Bangladesh into human trafficking, child marriage, or even prostitution, Anadolu Agency reports. “This announcement of cutting food rations will create Continue Reading

Tumbru border: Another 242 Rohingyas relocated to Cox’s Bazar

February 27, 2023

NEWS DESK Another 276 Rohingya refugees from the Tumbru border area were transferred to Kutupalong transit camp in Cox’s Bazar on Sunday. A total of 2,285 Rohingya belonging to 463 families were transferred to Ukhiya in seven batches in the last month. A total of 2,527 Rohingyas have been brought to the camp from there. […]Continue Reading

Canada remains Bangladesh’s strong partner tackling Rohingya crisis: Trudeau’s minister Sajjan

February 27, 2023

NEWS DESK Canadian International Development Minister Harjit S. Sajjan, now in Dhaka, has said that Canada would remain “very strong” partner of Bangladesh to bring more international focus on Rohingya crisis. “We (Bangladesh and Canada) will be working together … how we can bring more international focus on this (Rohingya) problem and focus on the Continue Reading

Bangladeshi youth loses leg in landmine explosion along Myanmar border

February 25, 2023

NAIKHHANGCHHARI, BAISHARI CORRESPONDENTS A 25-year-old Bangladeshi was severely injured in a land mine explosion along Banladesh-Myanmar border. The youth was identified as Md Golam Akbar, son of Syed Azim of Jamchhari under Bandarban’s Naikhhanchhari Sadar Union. Mr Akbar went to smuggle in cows from Myanmar on Saturday morning. As the time was ripe, he was […]Continue Reading

Sheikh Hasina resolved all political problems of hill tracts: CHT minister

February 24, 2023

STAFF CORRESPONDENT, RANGAMATI Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resolved all political problems in the Chattogram Hill Tracts, CHT Affairs Minister Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing says. “This region holds a special place in Sheikh Hasina’s heart and so development projects worth Tk 10,000 crore are now going on,” Ushwe Sing said while speaking at a discussion as […]Continue Reading

Impasse in Rohingya repatriation leads to security challenge: Bangladesh

February 24, 2023

NEWS DESK Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen has said negative impacts of the impasse in the repatriation of the displaced Rohingyas have been leading to various security challenges for Bangladesh and the region. ‘Bangladesh being a small country with high population density has already overburdened with other critical challenges of its own,’ he told a […]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