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Desperate Rohingya risk deadly voyages as trafficking surges

COX'S BAZAR — Rahela Begum survived the horrors of war in Myanmar and life in the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh -- only to end up drifting at sea, clinging to a wooden plank.

Bangkok Post

Fire at Cox's Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh destroyed homes and displaced thousands of Rohingya

A massive fire this week has destroyed hundreds of makeshift homes in a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, displacing more than 2,000 people

The Independent UK

Trafficked, exploited, married off: Rohingya children's lives crushed by foreign aid cuts

Though the US spent just 1% of its budget on foreign aid, Trump dubbed USAID wasteful and shut it down, a move that has proven catastrophic for the world's most vulnerable.

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Rohingya refugees face food shortages as aid cuts hit: ‘We go to sleep hungry... but I’m scared to go home’

IN FOCUS: The Rohingya that have fled violence and persecution in Myanmar face deteriorating conditions in the refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar as aid cuts leave supplies short. Lauren Crosby Medlicott reports

The Independent UK

No soap, no tents, no food: Rohingya families fight for survival as aid plummets

In Bangladesh, over a million people in the world’s largest refugee camp depend on aid – and cuts mean new arrivals are not even given shelter

The Guardian - UK

Bangladeshi leader demands justice for Rohingya, ‘safe return’ to Myanmar

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus says justice and security are vital for Rohingya before returning to Myanmar.

Al Jazeera

Foreign aid cuts hurt the most vulnerable in world’s largest refugee camp

In recent months, healthcare in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh has been badly affected by foreign aid cuts.

Al Jazeera

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Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh welcome $73 million in new U.S. financial aid

The U.S. government has confirmed it would provide $73 million in new financial aid for Rohingya refugees through the United Nations’ food agency, easing worries among more than 1 million refugees that essential food rations would be cut

The Independent UK

The Rohingya were driven from Myanmar. Now they’re taking up arms to fight back

SPECIAL REPORT: In the heart of the world’s largest refugee camp, whispers of resistance grow louder as young men feel compelled to take up arms and return to fight in Myanmar. Shweta Sharma speaks to these rebels and meets their secretive leader in a hideout in one of the Cox’s…

The Independent UK

UK Government slashing aid funding will hit world’s biggest refugee camp hard

THE “double whammy” of the UK Government slashing its overseas aid budget in a copycat response to the United States threatens to bring disaster…

The National (Scotland)

UN chief visits Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh as hunger fears rise

Antonio Guterres’ visit comes after WFP says it may have to halve food vouchers for Rohingya starting next month.

Al Jazeera

How Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees feel about Aung San Suu Kyi: ‘She was a rag doll who never had absolute power’

ON THE GROUND: Rohingya Muslims tell of their changing view of Aung San Suu Kyi, seeing her as one of their own – a victim of the military – as she languishes in solitary confinement. Shweta Sharma reports from Cox’s Bazar camps in Bangladesh

The Independent UK

Threadbare facilities, high mortality, cats in the corridors: the realities of life for new Rohingya mothers in Cox’s Bazar

In the world’s largest refugee site, high mortality, child kidnapping and a lack of healthcare make the journey to motherhood a perilous one

The Guardian - UK

How Rohingya activists are using art, food and storytelling as a form of resistance

Rohingya activists, advocates and health organisations in Australia have been frustrated by the lack of support provided to displaced Rohingya people.

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The Times of India

I can never forget what I saw in Bangladesh in the last few days, and now I love India more!

The day Shaikh Haseena fled from Dhaka I was in Bangladesh. I saw sloganeering, jeering, rowdy crowds cheering the opposition and overall chaos that ensued. It all started on 17th July 2024. I went to teach on a sabbatical to the students of the Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh…

The Guardian - UK

The big picture: Ismail Ferdous’s memories of seaside holidays

The photographer takes pictures at noon in winter on the longest beach in the world, in Bangladesh, to capture the light and atmosphere of his childhood

Bangkok Post

Rohingya refugees face soaring hunger and crime after aid cuts

LONDON: Every day 5-year-old Jannat hunts for bottles and cans in the Rohingya refugee camp where she lives in Bangladesh – when she collects enough, she buys a snack to stave off her hunger pangs.

The Conversation

Refugee camps are at higher risk of extreme weather – new research

Around the world, climate change, violence and poverty are forcing people from their homes. The UN’s refugee agency estimated that by mid-2022, there were 103 million people displaced from their homes, compared to 90 million at the end of 2021.

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Al Jazeera

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s ‘hot zone for climate threats’

Extreme weather is bearing down on vulnerable Rohingya communities on southeastern Bangladesh’s coast.

Al Jazeera

Flooding, communications blackout as Cyclone Mocha hits Myanmar

The storm is one of the most powerful to ever hit the region with winds as strong as 250km/h (155 mph).

The Independent UK

Bangladesh, Myanmar bracing as Cyclone Mocha set to make landfall

Bangladesh and Myanmar are bracing as an extremely severe cyclone is set to hit their coastal areas, as authorities told thousands of people in both countries to seek shelter

France 24

Thousands of Rohingya left homeless after yet another fire breaks out in Bangladesh refugee camp

An immense fire destroyed a large section of a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Sunday afternoon, leaving thousands of people without shelter in this camp that is home to around a million Rohingya refugees.

Al Jazeera

Concerns mount over UN food aid cut for Rohingya in Bangladesh

The UN and Bangladesh government call for more international aid to help the refugees as they face a ‘difficult year’.

Al Jazeera

Fire blazes through crowded Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh

At least 2,000 huts damaged in one of the 32 camps in Cox’s Bazar district where more than 1.2 million people live.

Reuters

Surging crime, bleak future push Rohingya in Bangladesh to risk lives at sea

Mohammed Ismail says four of his relatives were killed by gunmen at the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh between April and October last year. He recalls the September night when, he says, he almost met the same fate: masked men kidnapped him, cut off parts of his left arm and…

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