The World Health Organisation warned Monday of a growing cholera risk in the makeshift refugee camps in Bangladesh where more than 435,000 Rohingya Muslims have sought shelter from unrest in Myanmar.A month after the exodus began, those dispersed in some 68 camps and settlements along the border do not have safe drinking water and hygiene facilities, according to the WHO.The camps also face dire shortages of food and medicine in what has quickly become one of the world's largest refugee

The Muslim minority Rohingya people continue to flee their homes in the northern Rakhine State of Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh for fear of continued persecution by their Buddhist majority government and military.According to the latest numbers released by AFP, 422,000 stateless refugees have fled the conflict zone since the recent spate of violence started on the August 25 to overcrowded camps along the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar.

Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has issued a new call for Myanmar to take back the some 420,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in the Buddhist-dominated country.Hasina, speaking to Bangladeshi activists in New York where she is attending the UN General Assembly, also called for greater international pressure on Myanmar over the new crisis which has unfolded in the past three weeks, media reports said."We have told Myanmar, they are your citizens, you must take the

Beleaguered Myanmar State Counsellor, Aung San Suu Kyi expressed that her government does not fear international scrutiny for the ongoing refugee crisis developing in the Rakhine State, in northern Myanmar.“We too are concerned. We want to find out what the real problems are. There have been allegations and counter-allegations. We have to listen to all of them.

Thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled violence in Myanmar in search of refuge could be forced to make their new homes on a barren Bangladeshi island that floods every year.The Bangladesh government has appealed for international support to move the Rohingya to the island as the impoverished country confronts a growing crisis over where to house an influx that has mounted following a military crackdown in Buddhist-dominated Myanmar's Rakhine state.More than 300,000 Rohingya have

“We were all together but suddenly they started firing. I could not look back, because I thought I would die,” 12-year-old Jamal Hussein recounted to an AFP reporter at a refugee camp in Bahukhali, Bangladesh. He has not seen his parents since his five brothers were gunned down by Myanmar’s army (also known as the Tatmadaw) in a massacre at Aung Sit Pyin located in the northern Rakhine state on the August 25, 2017.

The number of Rohingya who have fled violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state to Bangladesh since August 25 has reached 313,000, a UN spokesman said Monday.The estimate came from Joseph Tripura, a spokesman for the UN refugee agency.The United Nations and the Bangladesh government have said the number arriving has slowed down in recent days although the situation is still volatile.On Sunday the UN said some 294,000 Rohingya had arrived, a jump of only 4,000 from the previous day."Many ne