EU tops aid for Rohingya with €10M

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Agnes Szucs

23.12.2019  
BRUSSELS

Health care, food nutrition to be provided for Rohingya camps in Myanmar, Bangladesh

The EU will grant €10 million (approx. $11 million) additional funds for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, as well as internally displaced people in Myanmar, the European Commission announced on Monday.

Netherlands Provides $4.3Mln For Rohingya Refugees In Bangladesh - UN Food Agency

UrduPoint
Umer Jamshaid 
18th November 2019

The World Food Program (WFP) said in a press release on Monday that the Netherlands has provided $4.3 million in support of the organization's relief efforts for the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

 

UNITED NATIONS (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 18th November, 2019) The World Food Program (WFP) said in a press release on Monday that the Netherlands has provided $4.3 million in support of the organization's relief efforts for the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

"The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) welcomes an additional contribution of [$4.3 million] from the Kingdom of the Netherlands to support the organization's work for the Rohingya refugees and host communities in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh," the release said.

US gives the biggest aid package to support Rohingyas

Dhaka Tribune
Sheikh Shahariar Zaman
October 25th, 2019

File photo of Rohingya women and children in a camp in Cox Bazar Mahmud Hossain Opu/ Dhaka Tribune

This year, the USA gave $274 million

While a request for $920 million was made to carry on the humanitarian aid for the Rohingyas, so far 60% has come thru, with the most from the United States of America.

This year alone, the US gave around $274 million.

The Rohinghya exodus began on Aug 25, 2017 when a large number of people came to Bangladesh to avert a crackdown by the Myanmar army. 

EU provides fresh €2 million fund for Rohingya

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SM Najmus Sakib

13.09.2019

WFP will utilize fund in humanitarian activities for displaced people in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

DHAKA, Bangladesh

The European Union agreed to fund the UN World Food Programme (WFP) with €2 million ($2.2 million) to run humanitarian activities for displaced Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh, the agency said Thursday.

Kuwait delivers more aid to Rohingya

Kuwait Times
13/07/2019

KUWAIT: Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) announced yesterday distribution of 2,300 food parcels to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh in coordination with Bangladesh Red Crescent Society. Each portion, handed over to a five-member family, is sufficient for two weeks, said Anwar Al-Hasawi, the KRCS Deputy Chairman and head of the society field team in Bangladesh.

He added that KRCS is continuing relief operations for the Rohingya either in coordination with local and international associations or directly by volunteers who have been doing their best to make sure that the aid supplies are delivered to those in need. The KRCS team has inspected refugees’ conditions in the region of Cox’s Bazar and a makeshift hospital built with contributions by the Kuwaiti, Bangladeshi and Qatari red crescents.

Turkey, the Rohingya crisis and Erdoğan's ambitions to be a global Muslim leader

MENAFN 

Author: Simon P. Watmough 

Date 7/10/2019 

(MENAFN - The Conversation) The emerging humanitarian crisis that has been rocking Myanmar - where an estimated 370,000 Rohingyahave been forced out of the country– has prompted broadinternational condemnation . But so far it has translated intolittle concrete action .

United Nations (UN) human rights chief Zeid Raad Al Hussein has called the Rohingya's plight a'textbook example of ethnic cleansing'following a similarstatement from UN Secretary General António Guterres . While Western countries have been slow and hesitant to respond, leaders of Muslim-majority countries – particularly Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Pakistan – have sought to place as much international pressure as possible onthe Myanmar government .

PM returns home from China

The Daily Star
July 07, 2019
Unb, Dhaka

China’s Vice Foreign Minister Luo Zhaohui bid farewell to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Beijing Capital International Airport yesterday. Hasina returned home wrapping up her five-day trip. Photo: PID 

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home yesterday concluding her five-day official visit to China.

A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the PM and her entourage touched down at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 1:40pm.

During her visit, Hasina attended the annual meeting of World Economic Forum in Dalian on July 2. She held talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang in Beijing on Friday and Saturday.

PM Prayuth calls to expedite probe, provide aid for Rohingyas stranded in Satun

FMT
Bernama
June 13, 2019

A Rohingya woman and her baby are detained in a police station in Rawi Island, Thailand after they were found on a fishing boat bound for Malaysia. (Reuters pic)

BANGKOK:Thailand prime minister General Prayuth Chan o-cha has instructed relevant authorities to expedite investigations on a group of 65 Rohingyas stranded at Rawi Island off the coast of Satun in southern Thailand on Tuesday. 

Turkish agency aids Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh

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Muhammed Enes Can 

ISTANBUL 

06.06.2019 

 

Poor families living in refugee camps provided with passenger, cargo carrier vehicles, sewing machines

( Safvan Allahverdi - Anadolu Ajansı )

A Turkish humanitarian aid group has distributed aid to oppressed Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

Sadakatasi Association facilitates refugees living in camps to earn a living.

A total of 400 sewing machines, 60 passenger vehicles and 30 cargo vehicles were delivered to refugee families.

Canada to give $100m aid for Rohingya crisis

The Daily Star

May 22, 2019

 

In this AFP file photo taken on November 26, 2017, Rohingya refugees walk down a hillside in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

Canada has announced almost US $100 million in humanitarian aid for the Rohingyas currently sheltered in Bangladesh’s refugee camps.

Kamal Khera, Parliamentary Secretary to Canada’s minister of international development, announced the aid today, said a press release today.

UN urges int’l help for 1.2m Rohingyas

The Daily Star

April 27, 2019

UN under-secretary gen, IOM, UNHCR chiefs make the call, reiterate need for safe, sustainable return of refugees

Top UN agency leaders have asked the international community to continue supporting the critical needs of 1.2 million people, Rohingya refugees and their local host communities, in south-eastern Bangladesh.

Turkish agency sends food to 1,012 Rohingya families

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Md. Kamruzzaman   | 18.04.2019

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh 

Some 5,000 families will receive food items in five phases this month

The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) distributed food items Wednesday to 1,012 Rohingya refugee families living in makeshift camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district.

Rakhine aid access ban leaves 95,000 lacking basic services, say INGOs

Frontier
MYANMAR
 By FRONTIER

Tuesday, April 02, 2019

The fighting has worsened an already precarious situation in Rakhine, the statement said. (Steve Tickner | Frontier)

YANGON — Nearly 100,000 people in Rakhine State are unable to access essential services because of a ban on aid organisations entering townships affected by fighting between the Tatmadaw and the Arakan Army, humanitarian groups have warned in a joint statement.

Aid for Rohingya costing taxpayers millions, says foreign minister

FMT News
Minderjeet Kaur
March 26, 2019 1:03 P

Rohingya refugees in a camp at Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh. (Bernama pic)

GOMBAK: Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah says the government is committed to supporting displaced Rohingya refugees but warns that humanitarian aid is costing millions in taxpayers’ money.

NGOs not using funds properly, says govt

theindepedent  

Foreign aid for Rohingyas

Deepak Acharjee, Dhaka

14 March, 2019  

Chairman of the Cabinet Committee on Law and Order, AKM Mozammel Haque, has said that they have asked the authorities concerned to monitor the activities of non-government organisations (NGOs) working among the Rohingyas at Cox’s Bazar.

RM300,000 education aid for Rohingyas

NEW 
STRAITSTIMES
By NST - March 13, 2019 @ 8:54am

THE Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation, through the United Arab Emirates (UAE) embassy in Malaysia, presented education aid worth RM300,000 to students from the Rohingya community living in Malaysia yesterday.

Japan to give $32.5m for Rohingyas

The Daily Star

February 26, 2019

In this AFP file photo taken on November 26, 2017, Rohingya refugees walk down a hillside in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

 

Japan has decided to give US $32.5 million for the Rohingya refugees sheltered in Bangladesh due to persecution in Myanmar.

Japanese government took the decision for additional support to the refugees on February 7, said a press release of Japan embassy in Dhaka.

Malaysian Diplomats Extend Aid to Rohingya In Delhi.

BERNAMA
21/02/2019

By Shakir Husain

Bernama's correspondent in New Delhi Shakir Husain shares his take on the happenings in India.

NEW DELHI (Bernama) -- Shabbily dressed and barefoot children extended their little hands to receive packets of biscuits while women gathered to receive bags of foodstuffs.

Aid for Rohingyas: US, EU pledge $87m fund

The Daily Star

February 18, 2019

 

                                                Reuters file photo

Staff Correspondent
The United States and European Union have announced additional funding of $60 million and €24 million ($27 million) respectively as humanitarian assistance for the Rohingya refugees.

The announcement came at the launch of the 2019 UN Joint Response Plan for Bangladesh in Geneva on February 15.

Switzerland provides additional 10 million francs for Rohingya refugees

reliefweb 

Government of Switzerland
Published on 15 Feb 2019 — View Original

Press release, 15.02.2019

In 2019, Switzerland will provide CHF 10 million and deploy experts from the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit (SHA) to help tackle the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh. The humanitarian crisis in eastern Bangladesh, a region that has taken in large numbers refugees, remains acute. The international Joint Response Plan seeks to raise USD 920 million to meet basic needs.