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UN to mobilise int’l community to help B’desh on Rohingya issue

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that the UN would continue to mobilise the international community to support Bangladesh as a host to the forcibly displaced Rohingyas. In a letter to Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on February 25, Guterres said he shared the Bangladesh chief adviser's concerns regarding the impact of the Rohingya crisis on Bangladesh and the region, as well as the worsening humanitarian situation in Rakhine.
"I will continue to exercise my good offices, including through my Special Envoy on the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, to

WHO, Japan to ensure Rohingya healthcare

Japan has allocated $3.2 million (JPY 500 million) to support the World Health Organization’s (WHO) efforts in reducing illness and preventable deaths among Rohingya refugees and host communities in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char.

The agreement was formalised through an exchange of notes between Japan’s Ambassador to Bangladesh, Saida Shinichi, and WHO’s Representative in Bangladesh, Dr Ahmed Jamsheed Mohamed.

Govt plans census for undocumented Rohingya

Bangladesh is to hold a census of hundreds of thousands of undocumented Rohingya who have crossed into the country seeking refuge from persecution in neighbouring Myanmar. Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque said the government had earmarked $2.7 million for the census to be carried out in Bangladesh’s southeast, near the border with Myanmar’s Rakhine state, reports AFP. rohingya-childrenOfficial estimates have put the number of undocumented Rohingya in Bangladesh at between 200,000 and 500,000, in addition to around 32,000 registere...

Myanmar finds 102 stranded BD migrants on island

Myanmar’s navy has discovered more than 100 Bangladeshi migrants stranded for nearly a month on a southern island, state media said on Tuesday, following a regional migrant crisis in which people smugglers abandoned thousands at sea. It was the first major rescue reported by Myanmar since May, when its navy found a boat packed with more than 700 migrants in the Andaman Sea at the height of Southeast Asia’s migrant boat crisis. [caption id="attachment_18152" align="alignright" width="648"]rohingya_migrants_1 Myanmar's navy discovers over ...
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