A Turkish aid agency has built a village for Rohingya refugees, the majority of whom are Muslims, in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazaar region. Named "Emir Sultan," the village consists of 414 bamboo huts, two water wells, two mosques, a community space and a garbage plant.
"Thanks to these houses, our Muslim brothers and sisters got electricity at their houses for the first time. We have put solar panels on every house," said Halil Asa, a representative of the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (İHH), one of the leading Turkish aid groups." The Rohingya see Turkey as a source of optimism. They see hope when they know you are from Turkey and carry a Turkish flag on your clothes," said the İHH official.
USNews May 17, 2019 By Simon Lewis and Poppy McPherson
YANGON (Reuters) - Aid groups and human rights advocates have warned the World Bank that a $100 million development project it is planning for Myanmar’s conflict-riven Rakhine State could worsen tension there.
The World Bank last week published the first details of a proposal to fund cash-for-work program, and support small businesses in one of Myanmar's poorest regions, through the government.
Bangladesh has sought China's strong support so that Myanmar moves in the right direction for resolving the Rohingya crisis.
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen raised the issue when Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Zhang Zuo met him at his office today.
The Foreign Minister appreciated the Chinese humanitarian assistance for the displaced people of Rakhine State. Bangladesh is now hosting over 1.2 million Rohingyas.
Gambia is 'determined' to place the issue of
Rohingya genocide to the International Court of Justice, its Foreign
Minister Mamadou Tangara says.
Visiting Gambian Foreign Minister Dr Mamadou Tangara today said they are committed to taking the Rohingya issue to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
The Gambian Foreign Minister said this when he met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence Gono Bhaban in Dhaka.
PM's press secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed reporters after the meeting.
More than 270,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar have been biometrically registered and received identity cards, the first time many of them have had legal identification, through a UNHCR and government of Bangladesh program.
UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic said in a briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva that the organizations have used the Biometric Identity Management System (BIMS) to register 270,348 out of more than 900,000 refugees in crowded settlements in the Cox’s Bazar district. After registering their fingerprints and iris scans, refugees receive a photo-ID card with biographic information, indicating Myanmar as their country of origin. More than 450 staff at six locations are registering over 4,000 refugees a day, in hopes of completing the registration process this year.
Some 740,000 Rohingya refugees fled a Myanmar military crackdown in August 2017 AFP/File
Geneva (AFP)
The 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.
Nasima Aktar is among hundreds of thousands of stateless Rohingya – many of whom have spent a lifetime without official documentation – for whom getting an official identity card is a significant step.
Min Aung Hlaing claims his army did not use excessive force when 700,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar in 2017
Myanmar military commander-in-chief, General Min Aung Hlaing, has had
his Twitter account suspended over its use to spread anti-Rohingya
propaganda.
Photograph: Lynn Bo Bo/Pool/Reuters
A Myanmar army general accused of masterminding genocide against the country’s Muslim Rohingya people has had his Twitter account suspended, following complaints about him using the social media platform for hate speech.
Min Aung Hlaing, the south-east Asian country’s top ranking general, had his @sgminaunghlaing account taken offline this week.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Norwegian government yesterday signed an agreement in Dhaka, aimed at fostering peace and harmony in Rohingya camps and host communities in Cox’s Bazar.
Sidsel Bleken, Norwegian ambassador to Bangladesh, and Sudipto Mukerjee, resident representative, UNDP Bangladesh signed the agreement worth USD 747,306 at the UNDP office for 2019-2021 period.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. File photo
Dhaka, May 16 (UNB) – Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has invited Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to attend the 14th Islamic Summit of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to be held at Makkah at the end of Ramadan.
Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi (L) presides over a meeting in Naypyidaw with military chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing (R) commemorating the third anniversary of the signing of Myanmar's nationwide cease-fire agreement, Oct. 15, 2018. Handout/Myanmar State Counselor's Office/AFP
Myanmar’s top military leader, seen by rights groups as the architect of a bloody ethnic cleansing campaign that drove more than 700,000 Muslim Rohingya into Bangladesh in 2017, had had his Twitter account suspended, RFA has learned.
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, accused by the United Nations of, among other things, genocide for the Rohingya campaign, had his @sgminaunghlaing account taken offline this week, nine months after his Facebook account was shuttered for hate speech against the ethnic minority.
Snr-Gen. Min Aung Hlaing in 2017 / Myo Min Soe / The Irrawaddy
YANGON—Military spokesman Brigadier-General Zaw Min Tun downplayed Twitter’s suspension of the account of Myanmar Army chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, denying the commander-in-chief had ever officially used the social media platform.
Commander-in-Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing speaks at a military
parade in honor of Armed Forces’ Day in Naypyidaw. Photo: Facebook /
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing
General Min Aung Hlaing’s tweeting days are over.
The top-ranking general in Myanmar, notorious for insisting that there was no use of “excessive force” in the August 2017 military campaign that drove out more than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims, was given the boot by the social media network yesterday, a move that follows similar suspensions of his accounts on Facebook and Russia’s VK platform in August.
ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်၊ မောင်တောမြို့နယ်၊ ဦးရှည့်ကျကျေးရွာအုပ်စု၊ ဦးရှည့်ကျကျေးရွာ၌ (လူမနေ) နေအိမ်(၁)လုံး မေ ၁၅ ရက် နေ့လည်ပိုင်း ၁ နာရီ ၃၀ မိနစ်ခန့်က မီးလောင်ကျွမ်းမှုဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့သည်။
ဒဂုံမြို့သစ်တောင်ပိုင်းမြို့နယ် ၁၀၆ ရပ်ကွက်က ပိတ်ထားတဲ့ အစ္စလာမ်ဝတ်ပြုဆောင်အတွင်းကို ၂၀၁၉ မေ ၁၆ ရက်နေ့ကတွေ့ရစဉ်Photo: Kyaw Zaw Win/RFA 
