Drop in foreign aid ails Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar

Dhaka Tribune
Nurul Islam Hasib
Publish : 20 Oct 2024, 

• Health facilities in Rohingya camps have decreased to 120 from 160
• Services in remaining facilities had to be cut significantly

Photo: Courtesy

Many health facilities in Rohingya camps have had to shut down as the foreign assistance for the forcibly displaced Myanmar citizens in Cox’s Bazar has dwindled.

Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, refugee relief and repatriation commissioner (RRRC), on Sunday said health facilities in Rohingya camps had decreased to 120 from 160 and services in the remaining facilities had to be cut significantly due to fund shortages.

Landslides at Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh, 9 dead

ddnews.gov.
19/06/2024 

In Bangladesh, nine people including eight Rohingyas died in landslides in separate Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday amid heavy rain.

The local administration official said big chunks of mud collapsed on a number of houses in No 9 and 10 Rohingya camps around 6 am on Wednesday, leaving six and three people dead respectively on the spot.

Rohingya CSOs support U.S. Congress GAP Act

mizzima
July 20, 2024

Ten Rohingya civil society organisations from Cox’s Bazar Rohingya Camp have released a statement expressing support for the Rohingya GAP Act that has been introduced into the U.S. Congress.

The Rohingya GAP Act was proposed to the U.S. Congress by U.S. Representatives Gregory Meeks (D-NY) and Michael McCaul (R-TX)

Cox's Bazzar က ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်တွေအတွက် ကုလသမဂ္ဂ အကူအညီတိုး

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ကော့ဘဇားရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်စခန်း (မေ ၂၄၊ ၂၀၂၄)

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် နိုင်ငံ Cox’s Bazar က ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည် စခန်းတွေမှာ ဗုဒ္ဓဟူးနေ့က ရေကြီးမြေပြိုမှုဒဏ် ခံခဲ့ရတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၈,၀၀၀ လောက်အတွက် အထောက်အကူပေးဖို့ ကုလသမဂ္ဂ ဒုက္ခသည်များဆိုင်ရာရုံး UNHCR က လုပ်ဆောင်နေကြောင်း ကုလ အတွင်းရေးမှုးချုပ်ရုံး လက်ထောက်ပြောခွင့်ရ Farhan Haq က သောကြာနေ့ ရုံးချုပ် သတင်းစာရှင်းလင်းပွဲမှာ ပြောပါတယ်။

ARSA commander killed in ‘gunfight

The Daily Star
Staff Correspondent, Cox’s Bazar
Thu Jun 13, 2024

A gunfight between a Rohingya armed group and police left a Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army commander killed in a Ukhiya camp of Cox's Bazar early yesterday, said police.

5 including Arsa leader arrested in Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camp

Dhaka Tribune
Abdul Aziz
Publish : 10 Jun 2024,

• Weapons, ammunition, and explosives were seized from them
• Operation at Rohingya Camp-4 on Sunday night

RAB arrests five people including the top leader of the separatist group Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa) at a Rohingya camp in Ukhiya of Cox's Bazar on Sunday, June 9, 2024. Photo: Dhaka Tribune

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested five people including the top leader of the separatist group Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa) at a Rohingya camp in Ukhiya of Cox's Bazar.

Rohingya man shot dead in Teknaf camp

The Daily star
Staff Correspondent, Cox’s Bazar
Sun May 12, 2024 

A Rohingya man was shot dead in a refugee camp under Hnila union of Teknaf upazila in Cox's Bazar last morning.

The incident took place at Mochni registered Rohingya camp in the union around 8:30am, said Teknaf Police Station Officer-in-Charge Mohammad Osman Gani.

Report: 21% of Rohingya girls have access to education

Dhaka Tribune
Abdul Aziz
Publish : 11 Mar 2024, 

Rohingya children pose with smiles at a school in a refugee camp in Bangladesh. Photo: Courtesy

Only 21% of Rohingya girls between the ages 12-18 years in the Rohingya camps of Cox’s Bazar continue their education, according to the Joint Multi-Sector Needs Assessment (MSNA) report 2022-2023.

The Rohingya in Cox’s Bazar: 45 Years On

The Irrawaddy
by Tony Waters and R.J. Aung
March 6, 2024

Rohingya refugees wait to receive supplies of rice, water and cooking oil at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar. /AFP

A month after the prime minister of Bangladesh raised concerns about the possibility of Rohingya repatriation, UNHCR representatives in Myanmar met with the junta’s education minister on February 7 to discuss repatriation. Meanwhile, Bangladeshi officials are reluctant to act in any way that might be perceived as taking sides between the junta and the ethnic Arakan Army; Bangladesh has perhaps started to understand there is a new sheriff in Rakhine, just across the Naf River.

Bangladesh police arrest 4 ARSA members with Arms in Cox's Bazar

Narinjara
Date: 25 February 2024 

Four terrorists from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) have been taken into custody by Bangladeshi police from a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, according to Ukhia News.

Renewed conflict in Rakhine State poses new threat to Rohingya

ARAB NEWS
Dr. Azeem Ibrahim
February 16, 2024  

Displaced Rohingya refugees from Rakhine state in Myanmar rest near Ukhia, at the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar. (AFP)

Since November, Rakhine State in Myanmar has been marred by renewed violence between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army, shattering a year-long unofficial ceasefire and exacerbating an already dire situation for the Rohingya population. This latest wave of conflict is not only deepening the existing humanitarian crisis, but also leading to large-scale displacement of the Rohingya, further compounding the suffering of one of the world’s most persecuted minorities.

Rohingya relocation: 1,500 more to go to Bhasan Char from Cox's Bazar

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
Publish : 13 Feb 2024,

• Schedule to sail to Bhasan Char by a naval ship on Wednesday morning
• Already brought to Cox’s Bazar from camps
• Earlier, 32,000 Rohingyas relocated to Bhasan Char

Rohingyas are seen to go to Bhasan Char by bus on Tuesday, February 13, 2024. Photo: Bangla Tribune

Another 1,500 Rohingyas are moving from the camps in Cox's Bazar to Bhasan Char in Noakhali as the internal conflict in Myanmar is impacting the border areas of Bangladesh.

3 Rohingya men arrested, arms recovered in Cox's Bazar

Bangladesh Sangstha ( BSS )
25 Jan 2024, 

COX'S BAZAR, Jan 25, 2024 (BSS) - Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a raid today arrested three Rohingya men and recovered huge quantity of arms from hilly areas near Rohingya camp in Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar.

Thousands of Rohingyas endure harsh winter after Cox’s Bazar camp fire

Dhaka Tribune
Abdur Rahman
Publish : 19 Jan 2024, 

• Around 1,000 refugee shelters destroyed in fire
• Women, children most affected
• In dire need of shelter, warm clothes 
  

People are pictured following a fire in a Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar on Sunday, January 7, 2024. Photo: Courtesy of Peter Saiful

 

Some 5,000 Rohingya refugees are leading an inhumane life this winter after a fire earlier this month at Camp 5 in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhiya upazila destroyed their shelters.

EU allocates €300,000 in humanitarian aid to gutted Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camps

Dhaka Tribune
UNB
Publish : 16 Jan 2024,

People are pictured following a fire in a Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar on Sunday, January 7, 2024. Photo: Courtesy of Peter Saiful UNB

In response to a recent fire in one of the refugee camps, hosting nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, the European Union has released €300,000 to assist the affected population.

စခန်း(၅) မီးအကြီးအကျယ်လောင်ကျွမ်းမှု ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခ သည် ထောင်ချီ အိုးမဲ့အိမ်မဲ့ဖြစ်

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ပြီးခဲ့တဲ့သီတင်းပတ် ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်စခန်း(၅) မီးအကြီးအကျယ်လောင်ကျွမ်းမှုမှာ အိမ်ခြေ တ ထောင်ကျော်နဲ့ စာသင်ကျောင်း ၂၀ကျော် မီးထဲပါသွားလို့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည် ခုနှစ်ထောင်ကျော် အိုးမဲ့အိမ်မဲ့ဖြစ် ခဲ့ကြရပါတယ်။ မီးလောင်မှုနောက်ဆုံးရအခြေအနေတွေကို မဆုမွန်က စုစည်းတင်ပြပေးထားပါတယ်။

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U.N. to boost food ration for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

REUTERS
By Sudipto Ganguly and Ruma Paul
January 2, 2024

Rohingya Muslim refugees receive food as they take rest on a sidewalk outside the government office after they were refused shelter by local residents, following their arrival, in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, December 11, 2023. REUTERS/Riska Munawarah/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights

DHAKA, Jan 2 (Reuters) - The United Nations will increase the food ration for each Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh by $2 a month, to $10, from Jan. 1, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday, as it thanked donors for coming to the rescue of a cash-strapped effort.

WFP to increase food ration from $8 to $10 for all Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar

Dhaka Tribune
Press Release
Publish : 31 Dec 2023,

• ‘2023 tumultuous one for Rohingya in Bangladesh’
• Before ration cut, 40% of children under five malnourished
• Sharp decline in resources reduced Rohingya's food entitlement in 2023
  

The undated image shows Rohingya refugees collecting their monthly food ration at a World Food Program (WFP) e-voucher outlet in Cox’s Bazar. Photo: Courtesy

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) is gearing up to restore its critical food assistance for the entire Rohingya population in Cox’s Bazar.

Starting on Monday, WFP will increase the food ration from $8 to $10 per person per month, and gradually add locally fortified rice to its food assistance package.

Refugees escape Cox's Bazar

DW
December 3'2023

However, life has remained difficult for the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, as they lack food, security, education, and work opportunities in the crowded camps.

A report by Human Rights Watch published this year said criminal gangs and affiliates of Islamist armed groups were causing fear at night in the refugee camps in Cox's Bazar.

A 19-year-old Rohingya refugee who recently arrived in Aceh province with her family told the AFP news agency that criminals in Cox's Bazar threatened her and her family every day, and she paid over $1,800 (€1,640) for the boat journey to Indonesia.

Rohingya leader hacked to death in Cox's Bazar

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
Publish : 25 Nov 2023,

• Police conducting raids to arrest the miscreants

• The Rohingya man was vocal against Arsa
  

File image of Rohingya camp. Photo: Dhaka Tribune

 

A Rohingya community leader has been hacked to death by a group of unidentified miscreants in the Ukhiya refugee camp of Cox's Bazar.

The deceased, Mohammad Ataullah, 50, was the majhi (community leader) of Balukhali camp no 19, Mohamamd Hossain, officer-in-charge (OC) of Ukhiya police station confirmed.