Refugee News
- 25/03/2020
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By Mohammed Rafique, The Rohingya Post “I am extremely anxious. So do many of us. It will be a disaster if we cannot prevent it" As the novel coronavirus COVID-19...
Read more- 18/03/2020
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The government on Thursday handed over a list of 4,92,000 more Rohingyas to Myanmar for verification to facilitate their return to the Rakhine state, although the Myanmar authorities were allegedly...
Read more- 11/03/2020
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By Verena Hölzl, The New Humanitarian ‘Provide us half our rations, but give us back the internet.’ Mohammed Rafique’s dying mother wanted to hear from her son in Myanmar one...
Read more- 22/02/2020
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By Aman Ullah The National Taskforce set up by the Government of Bangladesh has decided in its recent meeting that the Rohingya children living in Bangladesh refugee camps will be...
Read more- 07/02/2020
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By Daniel P. Sullivan, Refugees International Summary More than two years since the expulsion of the majority of the Rohingya population from Myanmar, Rohingya are still not being adequately informed...
Read more- 12/11/2019
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Sheikh Hasina Wazed Prime Minister Old Sangsad Bhaban Tejagaon, Dhaka-1215 Bangladesh CC: Minister of Disaster Management and Relief Enamur Rahman Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner Mahbub Alam Talukder U.N....
Read more- 07/11/2019
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By RFA The U.N.’s refugee agency says it wants to meet with Bangladesh government officials to discuss concerns about Dhaka’s plan to move thousands of Rohingya from Cox’s Bazar to...
Read more- 03/11/2019
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By Agence France-Presse DHAKA - Bangladesh said Sunday plans to relocate thousands of Rohingya living in overcrowded refugee camps to a remote island were “uncertain” after authorities failed to gain support...
Read more- 31/10/2019
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By Dave Grunebaum, VOA BANGKOK — Almost one in five children under the age of 18 living in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh suffers from a severe mental health problem,...
Read more- 27/10/2019
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By Dhaka Tribune Five US senators came to Bangladesh on a 7-day visit After visiting Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar that hosted over 1.1 million forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals, New...
Read more- 26/10/2019
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By Fortify Rights Press Release Testimonies indicate relocations slated for next month would be involuntary (BANGKOK, October 25, 2019)—The Government of Bangladesh should immediately halt plans to relocate Rohingya refugees...
Read more- 24/10/2019
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By The Daily Star Appreciating the country for opening its borders to huge Rohingya refugees, the United States has urged Bangladesh to "postpone" its Rohingya relocation plan to Bhashan char...
Read more- 16/10/2019
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Being good at both bat and ball, Jasmin found relief when she was growing up in the UK Jasmin Akhter, a Rohingya refugee born in Bangladesh, has been included in...
Read more- 08/10/2019
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by Edith M. Lederer, The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS — The U.N.'s independent investigator on Myanmar says it's not safe for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh to return...
Read more- 05/10/2019
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By KYODO NEWS Maebashi, Japan - As the Rohingya refugee crisis continues far away, the ethnic group's youths living north of Tokyo have formed a football team in a bid...
Read more- 04/10/2019
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By Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan, Dhaka Tribune 'China also said [to Myanmar] to give them [Rohingyas] cell phones so that they can inform their relatives about the situation' China has joined Bangladesh...
Read more- 01/10/2019
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By HRW Barbed Wire, Guard Towers to Deny Freedom of Movement (New York) – The Bangladesh government’s plans for barbed wire and guard towers around Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar violate...
Read more- 28/09/2019
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(Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, September 26, 2019 — Rohingya Refugee Network (RNN) expresses its deepest appreciation to Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, for putting emphasis on a long-term solution...
Read more- 26/09/2019
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By Joshua Kurlantzick | World Politics Review Myanmar’s government is pushing for the more than 1 million Rohingya refugees currently in Bangladesh to start returning to the country, in an...
Read more- 26/09/2019
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By Burmese News International A landmine explosion has killed a Rohingya refugee on the Burma-Bangladesh border, according to Lieutenant Colonel Ali Haidar Azad Ahmed, Commanding Officer of 34 BGB Battalion,...
Read more- 25/09/2019
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By Aakash Hassan | News18.com The period of internet blockade reminds them of the not-so-good-old days: when they had no information about their relatives and family members, when news of someone’s death...
Read more- 25/09/2019
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By Servet Günerigök, Anadolu Agency 'If you can do that, we are ready to build proper camps for these vulnerable people,' says Turkish FM WASHINGTON Turkey’s Foreign Minister on Tuesday...
Read more- 25/09/2019
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By The Daily Star Putting emphasis on a long-term solution to the protracted Rohingya crisis, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said she is going to place a four-point proposal at the...
Read more- 25/09/2019
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By The Rohingya Post Speaking alongside with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at a side event in conjunction with the 74th United Nations General Assembly in New York, the Prime...
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