UN seeks $920m to support Rohingya refugees in 2019

AL JAZEERA
15th February 2019

More than half the money is earmarked for critical aid including food, water, sanitation and shelter.

Rohingya refugee children at the Balukhali camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/ Reuters]

The United Nations, aid agencies and NGO partners have said they need $920 million this year to support more than 900,000 Rohingya refugees who fled their homes in Myanmar in the wake of a brutal military crackdown in 2017 and are now living in sprawling camps in Bangladesh.

Rohingya Urgently Need Relief, but is World Willing to Make an Effort?

THE GLOBAL POST

by Vincent Auger, February 13, 2019 in Opinion

A Rohingya refugee girl in Bangladesh. Photo: AFP 

Eighteen months after being driven from their homes in Myanmar by what U.N. officials described as a campaign of genocidal violence by the military, the situation facing Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh remains perilous. Hundreds of thousands of people live in camps (the camp in Kutupalong alone houses more than 600,000 people), relying on aid from the World Food Program and help from the government of Bangladesh.

Briefing: How the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh is changing

IRIN

BANGKOK, 13 February 2019

Young Rohingya refugees play at Balukhali refugee camp in Ukhia on 4 February 2019. CREDIT: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP)

Aid groups and authorities in Bangladesh are preparing to ask for more than $900 million in donor funding to help Rohingya refugees in the sprawling refugee settlements of southern Bangladesh.

But nearly 18 months after 700,000 Rohingya fled a violent military crackdown in Myanmar in August 2017, the aid sector finds itself shifting from emergency response to dealing with a protracted crisis.

Foreign minister seeks Vietnam's assistance

Diplomatic Correspondent 
January 30, 2019

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said Bangladesh is committed to the voluntary repatriation of Rohingya refugees to their homeland as soon as Myanmar creates a conducive environment for their safe return.

Japan aid for Bangladeshi farmers, Rohingyas

Japan today contributed US $5 million to support Bangladeshi smallholder farmers and Rohingya community sheltered in the country.

The country has signed an agreement with United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), said a press release issued from WFP in Dhaka.

ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေ အတွက် ဒေါ်လာ ၂၅ သန်း ကမ္ဘာ့ဘဏ် ထောက်ပံ့

RFA 

21.09.2018

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံ ကောက်စ်ဘဇား ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းက မွတ်စလင်ကလေးငယ်တွေကို ၂ဝ၁၈ ခုနှစ် ဇန်နဝါရီလ ၈ ရက်နေ့က တွေ့ရစဉ်။

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်ကနေ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံကို ထွက်ပြေးခဲ့ရတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာမွတ်စလင် လူငယ်နဲ့ ကလေးသူငယ်၃သိန်း ခွဲရဲ့ စိတ်ဒဏ်ရာတွေကို ကုစားဖို့နဲ့ ပညာသင်ကြားရေးအတွက် အမေရိကန်ဒေါ်လာ ၂၅ သန်း ထပ်မံထောက်ပံ့ဖို့ ကမ္ဘာ့ဘဏ်က သောကြာနေ့ မနေ့က အတည်ပြုလိုက်ပါတယ်။

Myanmar's Israeli strategy over Malaysian aid flotilla

World Bulletin
World Bulletin / News Desk
31st December 2016

Despite a promise at an ASEAN conference to keep bordres open, Myanmar president's office has told Malaysia that it will need to seek official approval...

A Malaysian flotilla transporting aid for Rohingya Muslims may be turned back by force if it enters Myanmar waters without official approval, according to local media.

Irrawaddy online magazine reported the president's office as warning Malaysian NGOs not to deliberately fuel flames sparked by ongoing violence in Myanmar's western Rakhine State, emphasizing the importance of not exploiting religion for political purposes.

( 29.12.2016 ) Indonesian Gov`t Sends Humanitarian Aid to Rohingya People

TEMPO.CO
29 December 2016

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian government has sent humanitarian aid for Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said that humanitarian relief was collected from Indonesian people, business owners and the government. “This morning, some 10 containers [of humanitarian aid] were sent to Rakhine State,” the President said today at Tanjung Priok Port, Jakarta.

( 20.11.2016 ) Aid to target Chin and Rakhine

Submitted by Eleven on Sun, 11/20/2016 

Writer: Aung Ye Ko

The government is planning to use most of last year's foreign aid budget of US$203 million for poverty-stricken Chin and Rakhine states, according to the Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) of the Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Rural Development.

The government is planning to use US$105 million upgrading roads to protect from further natural disasters in Chin and Rakhine states, including the Kalay-Falam-Hakha and Ngatinechaung-Gwa roads.

Another US$70 million will be used to upgrade rural roads and on vocational training. The government planned US$15 million for emergency responses and US$10 million for project planning.

Floods and landslides hit the states from July to September last year and problems persist. 

According to the ESMF, poverty rates in Chin and Rakhine states were 78 and 71 per cent, respectively.

Translated by Aung Kyaw Kyaw