Cox’s Bazar

Thousands Flee Fire At Rohingya Camp In Bangladesh

Five people are feared dead and at least 20,000 Rohingya have fled a huge blaze engulfing shanty homes at refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh, officials said Monday, in the third fire to hit the settlements in four days.Nearly one million of the Muslim minority from Myanmar - many of whom fled a military crackdown in their homeland in 2017 - live in cramped and squalid conditions at the camps in the Cox's Bazar district.Officials said the fire apparently started in one of the 34 cam

23 March 2021
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Traffickers: Selling False Dreams To The Rohingya

From Rakhine state in Myanmar, the Rohingya are an ethnic community of largely Muslim people. Perhaps a million of them have fled from violence in the ASEAN member state in successive waves of displacement since the early 1990s. In 2017, hundreds of thousands more fled Myanmar to escape persecution, war crimes and alleged genocide. Today, over 900,000 Rohingya live in camps in Cox’s Bazar in southeast Bangladesh – the world’s largest refugee settlement.

16 December 2020
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Race To Stop COVID 'Nightmare' In Rohingya Camps

Emergency teams raced Friday to prevent a coronavirus "nightmare" in the world's largest refugee settlement after the first confirmed cases in a sprawling city of shacks housing nearly a million Rohingya.There have long been warnings the virus could race like wildfire through the cramped, sometimes sewage-soaked alleys of the network of 34 camps in southeast Bangladesh.Most of the refugees have been there since around 750,000 of the Muslim minority fled a 2017 military offensiv

16 May 2020
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Migrants Stranded Worldwide By Pandemic

Many thousands of migrants have been left stranded by the coronavirus pandemic, unable to move due to lockdowns and border closures around the globe, the United Nations (UN) said Thursday.The UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in Southeast Asia, East Africa and Latin America, many were attempting to return to their countries of origin but were unable to do so.Migrant camps were "very prone" to spreading the disease, IOM Director General Antonio Vitorino to

9 May 2020
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UN issues ID cards for Rohingya refugees

The United Nations (UN) said Friday it has registered more than 250,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, providing many with their first ever identification cards and proof of their right to return to Myanmar in the future.The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) also said the registration could serve as a tool for law enforcement to help counter human trafficking."Over a quarter of a million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar have now been jointly registered and provided with identity cards by Banglad

19 May 2019
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