Number of Rohingyas leaving by boats tripled in first half of 2025: UNHCR

Bangladesh Post
UNB, Dhaka
Bangladesh Post Desk
Published : 16 Oct 2025

The number of Rohingya refugees who left Bangladesh by boats in the first six months of the year tripled compared to last year, as conditions for children in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar camps continue to deteriorate and funding cuts reduce essential services, said Save the Children.

Rohingyas hold rally in Cox's Bazar ahead of UN high-level conference

daily observer
Published : Saturday, 27 September, 2025  
Upazila Representative

Ahead of the upcoming UN high-level international conference on the Rohingya issue scheduled for September 30 at United Nations headquarters in New York, Rohingya refugees staged a significant rally on Saturday in Camp no. 13 of Balukhali, located at Palongkhali union of Ukhiya upazila in Cox’s Bazar district.

Bangladesh holds international conference on Rohingya: Here’s what to know

Al Jazeera 
Al Jazeera Staff
Published On 25 Aug 2025

From left, Jahena Begum, 50, and her three disabled children - Sumaiya Akter, 23; Md Ayas, 21; and Md Harez, 19 - live in a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh [File: Valeria Mongelli/Al Jazeera]

Bangladesh is holding a two-day conference in Cox’s Bazar on the persecuted Rohingya community before a high-level conference on the Rohingya refugee crisis in September on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

UN to halve Rohingya food aid in Bangladesh amid funding crunch

Aljazeera
6 Mar 2025 

World Food Programme says ‘severe funding shortfalls’ to force cut in monthly food vouchers from $12.50 to $6 per person.

Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, mark the fifth anniversary of their flight from Myanmar during a military crackdown [File: Rafiqur Rahman/Reuters]

The United Nations has warned that it will be forced to halve rations for about one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh from next month due to a lack of funds.

The World Food Programme (WFP) said in a letter on Wednesday that “severe funding shortfalls” are forcing a cut in monthly food vouchers from $12.50 to $6 per person.

Threadbare facilities, high mortality, cats in the corridors: the realities of life for new Rohingya mothers in Cox’s Bazar

The Guardian
Rebecca Root in Cox's Bazar
Thu 2 Jan 2025

Midwife Sumana Akter checks on a newborn baby inside the Friendship hospital in a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar. In some areas of the camp, maternal mortality is 44% higher than the Bangladesh average Photographs by Thomas Cristofoletti/Ruom for the Guardian

In the world’s largest refugee site, a lack of healthcare coupled with rising gang violence makes the journey to motherhood a perilous one

It is mid-afternoon on a Wednesday and Toyoba Begum, 37, is sitting upright at the end of her hospital bed, the second in a row of eight. Dressed in a beige tunic and canary yellow trousers, a belly recovery belt clasped around her stomach, she watches her two-day-old daughter sleeping under a fleece blanket.

EU releases €1 million in humanitarian aid to respond to an outbreak of hepatitis C in refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar

European Commission
19.12.2024
Press release

The EU has released €1 million (around 125 million Bangladeshi taka) in humanitarian aid to contain the spread of hepatitis C in the refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar. This funding will support the response plan outlined by the World Health Organisation and other partners providing healthcare in the camps.

Rohingya man detained with arms, ammunition in Cox’s Bazar

THE BUSINESS STANDARD
TBS Report
04 November, 2024

 The arrest took place early this morning (4 November) in the Naf River's Jhingekhaliarea of Teknaf’s Whykong Union.

The detainee, identified as Md Alam, 19, is a resident of Block G-7 in the Balukhali 12 Rohingya camp in Ukhiya. Photo: Collected

The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained a Rohingya man who was carrying locally-made firearm, five rounds of ammunition, and one used cartridge while returning to Cox's Bazar refugee camp from Myanmar, said Lt Col Md Mohiuddin Ahmed, commanding officer of Teknaf 2 Battalion.

The arrest took place early this morning (4 November) in the Naf River's Jhingekhaliarea of Teknaf's Whykong Union.

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 ကုလ သမဂ္ဂ အကူအညီတိုး

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
၂၂ ဇွန်၊ ၂၀၂၄ 

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.