UN chief visits Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh as hunger fears rise | Food News
Antonio Guterres’s visit comes after the UN food agency says it may have to halve food vouchers for the Rohingya starting next month.United Nations Secretary-General…
Antonio Guterres’s visit comes after the UN food agency says it may have to halve food vouchers for the Rohingya starting next month.United Nations Secretary-General…
The United Nations has warned that it will be forced to halve rations for about one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh from next month due…
New Delhi, India – Every morning, Mohammad*, 32, watches his 12-year-old daughter, Fatima*, waking up with the same enthusiasm – putting on her worn-out uniform,…
Refugees were initially blocked by local residents from landing, but have now been taken to temporary shelters.More than 70 Rohingya refugees fleeing persecution in Myanmar…
The 102 refugees, including 25 children, were taken to Sri Lanka’s eastern port of Trincomalee.More than 100 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar have been rescued…
UNDP says without urgent action, 95 percent of the population will regress into survival mode.Myanmar‘s war-ravaged Rakhine state could face imminent famine according to a…
Ninety-six Rohingya refugees, including seven children, are stranded on Sumatra island after escaping on a rickety boat.Six people have died as nearly 100 Rohingya landed…
Earlier this year, artillery fire crashed through U Khup Thang’s home in Paletwa, in western Myanmar’s Chin State, killing his son. “It felt like a…
Rohingya seeking refuge in Bangladesh hold rallies marking the seventh anniversary of their exodus from Myanmar.Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have held…
Bangladesh’s interim prime minister has also pledged to maintain the country’s important garment industry.Muhammad Yunus, the interim leader of Bangladesh, has delivered his first major…
Medical charity MSF warns of urgent need to protect civilians caught up in escalating conflict in western Rakhine State.More Rohingya are arriving in Bangladesh from…
A United Kingdom-based rights group has called for global action over what it called an “intensifying genocide” against Myanmar’s mostly Muslim Rohingya minority as fighting…
Since war resumed in his native Rakhine State last November, Thura Maung has seen his options narrow. The 18-year-old, from the state’s ethnic Rakhine majority,…
Amin thinks it was about a month before they arrived in Malaysian waters. It was the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Malaysia had…
Rohingya activists fear civilians could be targeted and thousands forced to leave their homes after a rebel group announced plans to attack Maungdaw, a town…
UN rights chief Volker Turk urges Bangladesh, other countries ‘to provide effective protection’ to the latest refugees. Escalating violence in conflict-torn Myanmar’s Rakhine State has…
Fighting between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA) has escalated in the western state of Rakhine in recent days, putting thousands of mostly…
NewsFeedForced conscription into the military is the latest tactic Myanmar’s military-led government is using to target the persecuted Rohingya population.Published On 16 Apr 202416 Apr…
Kolkata, India – Muhammad Hamin has been unable to sleep at night since March 8 when the government of the northeast Indian state of Manipur…
Local authorities in Aceh province have received several reports about dead bodies floating in nearby waters since Saturday. The bodies of three Rohingya refugees have…