For the first time, Bangladesh seeks foreign loans to support Rohingyas

THE BUSINESS STANDARD
Abul Kashem & Jahidul Islam
04 December, 2023,  

$1 billion sought from WB and ADB – $535 million in loans and $465 million in grants .

In the face of diminishing funds from international sources, Bangladesh is actively seeking a billion-dollar aid package from the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to support socio-economic development efforts for the Rohingya population and the affected host communities in the country.

The package, which includes $535 million in loans and $465 million in grants, aims to address the challenges faced by the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals and mitigate the impact of their presence on local communities.

Bangladesh stops scores of Rohingya seeking to sail to Indonesia

CNA
25 Nov 2023 

A Rohingya refugee wades ashore after an overcrowded boat carrying about 250 people arrived in Indonesia's west. (Photo: AFP/amanda jufrian)

TEKNAF, Bangladesh: Bangladesh police have clamped down on Rohingya refugees setting sail to Indonesia, officers said on Saturday (Nov 25), after hundreds from the persecuted Myanmar minority took the long and risky sea voyage to escape squalid camps.

UN expert: Support Rohingya refugees following Indonesia

Dhaka Tribune
UNB
Publish : 23 Nov 2023,

File photo of Rohingyas. Photo: Dhaka Tribune

A UN expert on Thursday called for a regional emergency response to the growing number of desperate Rohingya refugees who continue to arrive in Indonesia in overcrowded vessels, as conditions in refugee camps in Bangladesh continue to deteriorate, where food rations have been significantly cut.

Scottish Parliament team visits Bangladesh

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Report
Publish : 19 Nov 2023, 

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen greets Scottish Parliament delegation led by its Convenor and Shadow Minister for Culture, Europe and International Development of Scotland Foysol Choudhury at his office on Sunday, November 19, 2023. Photo: Courtesy

A delegation from the Cross-Party Group (CPG) on Bangladesh at the Scottish Parliament led by its Convenor and Shadow Minister for Culture, Europe and International Development of Scotland Foysol Choudhury is currently visiting Bangladesh.

Bangladesh welcomes historic consensus on OIC-sponsored Rohingya resolution

ARAB NEWS
16 November 2023
SHEHAB SUMON

Rohingya gather at a market in Bangladesh’s Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on May 15, 2020. (AFP)

 

• New UN resolution was tabled by OIC and EU, co-sponsored by 144 countries
• It received the biggest international support since the beginning of Rohingya crisis

DHAKA: Bangladesh on Thursday welcomed a consensus on a UN resolution related to the repatriation to Myanmar of the 1.2 million Rohingya refugees it has sheltered for the past six years.

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled a military crackdown in Myanmar in 2017 have sought shelter in neighboring Bangladesh.

EU releases €10.5 million in humanitarian aid for people in Myanmar and Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations
16 November 2023

© WFP/Saikat Mojumder

 

Due to the deteriorating humanitarian situation, the EU has released €10.5 million in humanitarian aid to address the needs of people in Myanmar and of Rohingya refugees and their host communities living in Bangladesh.

Out of this new funding, 7 million is allocated for Myanmar, and the remaining 3.5 million for Bangladesh.

Rohingya’s Infiltration As A Threat To India – OpEd

eurasia review
Nava Thakuria
November 14, 2023

Rohingya refugees. Photo Credit: Tasnim News Agency

Perceiving the threat of illegal Bangladeshi migrants for decades, the people of Assam (also India) have come to realise another important matter of concern and that is from the inherent influx of Rohingya people. Currently taking shelter in south Bangladesh after fleeing from Myanmar six years back, the Muslim Rohingyas are leaving their camps to various countries namely Indonesia, Malaysia and India. On many occasions, the traffickers have taken advantage of the situation to send those stateless people through West Bengal and Tripura, which have a proximity of Bengali language.

Turkey promises continued humanitarian assistance

daily observer
Diplomatic Correspondent
Friday, 10 November, 2023

Turkish Ambassador to Bangladesh, Ramis Sen, has said that his country is standing alongside the oppressed Rohingya community and will continue to provide humanitarian aid for them as long as they are in Bangladesh.

According to a press release, Ambassador Sen expressed Turkey's commitment to enhancing the education, culture, mental development, and overall quality of life for the Rohingyas.

Myanmar Seeking to Repatriate Rohingya Refugees from Bangladesh

ALJAZEERA
10/31/2023

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are reluctant to repatriate without guarantees for safety, dignity and and the recuperation of their homes.

Rohingya families want to go home, but demand that they should go 'back to our place of origin', living in 'dignity' with full rights [Rafiqur Rahman/Reuters]

 

Myanmar officials have met with Rohingya refugee families in Bangladesh to discuss their repatriation to Myanmar.

The officials travelled to Bangladesh on Tuesday to meet with refugees amid a new repatriation plan brokered by China. The push is part of a pilot repatriation scheme discussed in a three-way meeting between the two countries and China in April. 

Southeast Asia fears US neglect, ostracised Muslims and resurgent extremists as Israel-Gaza war rages on

Institute of stragetc & Ineternational Studies
Thomas Daniel,
By Maria Siow and Amy Sood
- 23 October 2023 Related:
Israel, Malaysia, Middle East, Palestine, Southeast Asia

 

• Analysts warn of a spike in Hamas-inspired radicalisation and plummeting interfaith relations as the Middle Eastern conflict continues to escalate
• Washington’s attention, meanwhile, looks set to remain elsewhere due to a fundamental ‘shift of focus’ – unless China ‘does something really drastic’

 

As the civilian death toll from the bloodiest Israel-Gaza conflict in decades climbs ever higher, analysts warn that Asia must be on guard against deep divisions over the war tearing at the region’s social fabric – and the consequences of an increasingly distracted United States turning the bulk of its attention elsewhere.

UNICEF Bangladesh Humanitarian Situation Report No. 4 (Dengue Outbreak): 2 October 2023

 

 

Tokyo wants dignified return of Rohingyas to Myanmar

Dhaka Tribune
UNB
Publish : 08 Oct 2023,

The undated image shows the view of the Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar. Photo: Collected

 

Japan wants a dignified return of forcibly displaced Rohingyas, now sheltered in Bangladesh, to their homeland, Myanmar.

Displacement and Discrimination

SOUTHASIA
Gulnaz Nawaz
October 2023 

The future of the Rohingya population residing in Cox’s Bazar is characterised by a state of uncertainty. 

For almost six years, the picturesque Bangladeshi seaside town of Cox’s Bazar has been at the epicentre of a dire humanitarian catastrophe that has captured the world’s attention. Unfortunately, this critical problem has not been addressed despite extensive media attention. The Rohingya people are at the heart of this continuing crisis because they escaped persecution and violence in Myanmar and sought refuge in Bangladesh.

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh face new crisis as funding diminishes: UN

Xinhua
Editor: huaxia
2023-09-27

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, now face a dire situation as aid funding diminishes, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday.

The Rohingya, who have faced repeated climate shocks since their exodus from Myanmar seven years ago, now face hunger, deepening their vulnerabilities, said Stephane Dujarric, chief spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh say living conditions worse than in Myanmar: Report

THE STRAIT TIMES
Tan Hui Yee
Indochina Bureau Chief
23 Sept 2023

The Rohingya refugees said living in camps fenced in by barbed wire and guarded checkpoints made it difficult to even move around within the camps in Bangladesh's Cox Bazar district. PHOTO: ST FILE

BANGKOK - A brutal military crackdown in 2017 forced over 700,000 Rohingya to flee from Myanmar to Bangladesh. But severe movement curbs, violence and extortion these Muslims now face in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camps are making some so desperate that they are thinking about suicide, according to a report released on Friday.

Cox’s Bazar is a town on the south-east coast of Bangladesh.

Bangladesh hosts about one million Rohingya refugees who have dim prospects of returning home after a February 2021 military coup plunged Myanmar into turmoil.

PM for redouble global support to end Rohingya crisis

daily Sun
BSS, New York
23rd September, 2023

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the world community, particularly the ASEAN member states, to redouble their collective efforts to repatriate Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar side by side with executing the resolutions of security council and general assembly to ensure a sustainable solution to the crisis.

Bangladesh's priority is to repatriate Rohingyas to Myanmar, PM tells Uzra Zeya

THE BUSINESS STANDARD
BSS
22 September, 2023,

The Prime Minister said Rohingya repatriation should start as early as possible otherwise the region will fall into security threats as the Rohingyas have been engaging in criminal activities that included killings, firearms smuggling and trading. 

 

Photo: PID

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her government attached priority to sending back Rohingyas to their homeland Myanmar.

"Our priority is to repatriate the forcibly displaced Rohingyas taken shelter in Bangladesh to their homeland," she said.

Bangladesh asks ASEAN to "carry" Rohingya

KOMPAS
FX LAKSANA AGUNG SAPUTRA DARI NEW YORK, AS
23 September 2023 

The fate of the Rohingya ethnic group who were forced to flee Myanmar in 2017 is unclear. The issue is getting deeper and deeper with various recent dynamics. 

KOMPAS/FX LAKSANA AGUNG SAPUTRA

From left to right, Director General of the International Organization for Migration, Antonio Vitorino, President of Timor Leste, Jose Ramos-Horta, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, and Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim AA Khan KC. The meeting discussed the Rohingya issue which was held during the High Level Week of the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York, United States, on Thursday (21/9/2023).

NEW YORK, KOMPAS - Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged ASEAN to continue prioritizing the Rohingya issue as a significant regional agenda. She encouraged ASEAN to increase efforts to build trust in Myanmar, so that Rohingya ethnic groups could return to their homeland with dignity.

This Persecution is the Worst there is Restrection on Rohingya Freedom of Movement in Bangladesh

Prestigious 'Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA)' committee visited Rohingya Camps

brac
Wednesday, 20 September 2023 

A five-member delegation from the 'Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA)' committee visited the Rohingya Camps in Cox's Bazar today (Tuesday, 19 September). Dr. Hossain Zillur Rahman, former adviser to the caretaker government and chairperson of BRAC, along with senior officials from the organisation, joined the delegation during the visit.