Humanitarian crisis management programme: Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh - Situation Report #7: Fire incident across Rohingya camps (28 March 2021)

Situation Report
Source :BRAC
29 Mar 2021

 

Humanitarian crisis management programme: Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh - Situation Report #6: Fire incident across Rohingya camps (27 March 2021)

Situation Report
Source: BRAC
28 Mar 2021

Rohingya rebuild shelters after deadly Bangladesh camp fire

FRANCH 24

Balukhali (Bangladesh) (AFP)

5/03/2021

A Rohingya refugee child stands by his burnt home days after a fire at a refugee camp in Bangladesh's southeastern Cox's Bazar district Munir Uz zaman AFP

About 30,000 Rohingya refugees who fled a deadly blaze at camps in Bangladesh returned to their scorched shanties Thursday, seeking to rebuild their makeshift homes as others searched for missing relatives, officials and aid groups said.

The settlements in southeast Bangladesh -- home to nearly a million of the Muslim minority from Myanmar, many of whom escaped a military crackdown in 2017 -- were hit by a major fire on Monday that left at least 15 people dead and nearly 50,000 homeless.

Malaysian field hospital in Cox’s Bazar handed over to govt

The Daily Star

Star Digital Report

March 15, 2021

The Malaysian field hospital, set up in late 2017 in Cox's Bazar by the Malaysian government in response to the Rohingya refugee crisis, was handed over to the Bangladesh government yesterday.

The Malaysian field hospital was handed over to the Bangladesh government on Sunday, March 14, 2021. Photo: Collected

The hospital, situated near Ukhia Degree College was handed over to Bangladeshi authorities in a programme around 11:00am at the college grounds, reports our Cox's Bazar correspondent.

The programme was attended by High Commissioner of Malaysia to Bangladesh Haznah Md Hashim, Refugee, Relief and Repatriation Commissioner Shah Rezwan Hayat, Additional Commissioner Mohammad Shamsud Dauza and other government officials.

Rohingya ‘criminal’ shot dead in Cox’s Bazar: police

The Daily Star

Star Digital Report

March 14, 2021

Rohingya criminals have shot a man dead from the same community, over establishing supremacy between groups, in a refugee camp at Teknaf in Cox's Bazar.

The deceased was identified as Md Jubair (21), a resident of block C of Nayapara refugee camp.

Another Rohingya man -- Md Jalil Prokash Sunia -- was also stabbed over the same issue, our local correspondent reports.

South Korean envoy visits Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar

Prothomalo
Diplomatic Correspondent

Dhaka
19 Feb 2021,

South Korean envoy visits Rohingya camps in Cox’s BazarCourtesy

South Korean ambassador in Dhaka Lee Jang-keun visited the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar. He met representatives of the UN agencies, international donor organisations and the local administration in Cox’s Bazar and discussed how to step up collaboration to resolve the Rohingya crisis.

Lee Jang-keun told Prothom Alo on Thursday, “This is the first time I visited Cox’s Bazar to see the Rohingya crisis since I came to Dhaka in July last year. I got an overall idea on the crisis through this visit.”

Japan, UNHCR sign $10m deal to help Rohingya

THE NATION

Anadolu

March 02, 2021

Japan and the UN Refugee Agency signed an agreement over the weekend to provide around $10 million for improving access to clean water at camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district, where more than 1.2 million Rohingya refugees have been taking shelter following a military crackdown in Myanmar in 2017.

The funds will be used to support the improvement of water supply and distribution systems for Bangladeshi host communities and Rohingya refugees in the Teknaf upazila, or administrative region, of Cox’s Bazar, the Japanese embassy in Dhaka and UNHCR said in a joint statement.

Entire education system in Cox's Bazar under threat: CCNF

The Daily Star

Star Online Report
January 23, 2021 

With a blank look on her face, a Rohingya child stands outside her shelter at Balukhali camp in Cox's Bazar on Sunday. File photo/Anisur Rahman

Cox's Bazar CSO-NGO Forum (CCNF) has called for taking up special rehabilitation programmes for local educational institutions and students affected by the Rohingya influx in Cox's Bazar in 2017.

The network of 50 local NGOs and civil society organisations also demanded introduction of education for Rohingyas with Myanmar curriculum to make Rohingya repatriation sustainable.

The CCNF made the call in a statement on the occasion of International Day of Education on January 24.

Cox's Bazar က ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းတစ္ခုမီးေလာင္ၿပီး အိမ္ ေၿခ ၅၀၀ ထက္မနည္းပ်က္စီး

VOA

ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)

14 ဇန္နဝါရီ၊ 2021 

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းတြင္း မီးေလာင္ေနတဲ့ ျမင္ကြင္း။ (ဓာတ္ပံု - U Aye Lwin - ဇန္နဝါရီ ၁၄၊ ၂၀၂၁)

 

 

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏိုင္ငံ အေရွ႕ေတာင္ပိုင္း Cox’s Bazar ေဒသ မွာရွိ တဲ့ ႐ိုဟင္ ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္စခန္းမွာ ဒီေန႔ အိမ္ေျခ ရာနဲ႔ခ်ီၿပီး မီး ေလာင္ ကြၽမ္းခဲ့ပါတယ္။  ဒီေန႔ မီးေလာင္ကြၽမ္းမႈေၾကာင့္ အဲဒီဒုကၡ သည္စခန္းမွာရွိတဲ့ အိမ္ေျခ ၅၀၀ ထက္မနည္း မီးေလာင္ ပ်က္စီး သြားခဲ့တယ္လို႔ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏိုင္ငံမွာရွိတဲ့ Save the Children အဖြဲ႕ ၫႊန္ၾကား ေရးမႉး Onno van Manen က ထုတ္ျပန္ ခ်က္တခု မွာ ေျပာထားပါတယ္။

Save the Children အဖြဲ႕ရဲ႕ထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္ထဲမွာ မီးေလာင္တာ ဘယ္ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းဆိုတာ အတိအက် ေဖာ္ျပ မ ထားပါဘူး။ ဒုကၡသည္တစ္ဦးက ဓာတ္ပုံေတြနဲ႔တကြ ဗြီအို ေအကို အေၾကာင္းၾကားထားတဲ့ထဲမွာေတာ့ Nayapara ဒုကၡသည္စခန္း အမွတ္ ၂၆ လို႔ေျပာထားပါတယ္။

New Hope for Rohingya Refugees with Disabilities in Cox’s Bazar

IOM
Source IOM
3 Dec 2020

Anuara was born with a congenital limb defect but goes to great lengths to overcome her daily struggles. Photo: IOM/Monica Chiriac

 

Twenty-six-year-old Anuara was born with a congenital limb defect. However, this does not stop the single mother from doing her household chores, getting around the camp and looking after her two-year-old. “I have been using my hands to walk my entire life,” Anaura explains. Yet, since the onset of COVID-19, she is increasingly relying on her neighbours for errands.

Anaura is one of the 59 Rohingya refugees with disabilities who will receive assistive devices in the coming weeks. “I hope the wheelchair will be the right height for me, so I can get into the seat by myself,” she says. Most of the people with disabilities living in the camps have been disabled their entire lives, but have never owned an assistive device to facilitate their daily tasks.

Turkey hands out winter aid to Rohingya in Bangladesh

YeniSafak
Haber Merkezi
November 30, 2020

Five thousand Rohingya families in Bangladesh's refugee camps receive blankets handed out by Turkey's state aid agency as winter hurriedly approaches in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

Link : Here

Bangladeshi educating Rohingya earns global praise

AA

Md. Kamruzzaman
DHAKA, Bangladesh
30.11.2020

Rima Sultana Rimu on mission to educate Rohingya children in refugee camps

Bangladeshi woman Rima Sultana Rimu, named one of the 100 inspiring and influential women around the world in 2020 by the BBC, dreams of educating Rohingya children.

The daughter of a farmer from the remote southern area of Ramu in Cox’s Bazar district has played a significant role for the last three years in providing education to women and children in Rohingya camps deprived of formal studies.

“As a human being I feel that the people who have taken shelter in my country should enjoy basic human rights like education and I have started my struggle to educate Rohingya children amid various limitations and difficulties,” Rimu told Anadolu Agency.

World Bank Expands Support for Basic Service Delivery to Rohingya and Local Communities in Cox's Bazar

Market Screenere
11/20/2020

DHAKA, November 18, 2020 - The government of Bangladesh today signed a $100 million grant financing agreement with the World Bank to scale up access to energy, water, sanitation services and disaster-resilient infrastructures for the Rohingya and the surrounding host communities.

The additional financing to the ongoing Emergency Multi-Sector Rohingya Crisis Response Project will benefit about 780,800 people, including 140,800 local people with better public infrastructure. This will help about 365,800 people access to improved water sources and 171,800 people access better sanitation. This will be achieved through installing mini-piped water supply schemes, point water sources, and rainwater harvesting systems, along with household toilets and community toilets in the Cox's Bazar district. 

USAID, KSRelief to co-fund WFP project in Cox’s Bazar

Dhaka Tribune  

UNB
November 14th, 2020

File photo of a Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune

The fund will be used to rehabilitate cyclone shelters and reduce the risk of disasters in Cox’s Bazar

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Saudi Arabia's King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSRelief) will provide $1 million each to a program managed by the World Food Programme (WFP) to rehabilitate cyclone shelters and reduce the risk of disasters in Cox’s Bazar.

Saudi Arabia, US sign Rohingya aid deal

ARAB NEWS

SPA

13 November 2020 

Rohingya Muslim refugees children queue for aid suplies at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar on Dec. 4, 2017. (AFP/File)

 

• The agreement aims to rehabilitate housing with a total value of $2 million
• The program will target 87,165 people for urgent assistance

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia signed virtually on Thursday an agreement with the US to implement a multi-sector refugee support program in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh.

The agreement aims to rehabilitate housing with a total value of $2 million, and will be managed by the World Food Program (WFP).

Korea gives $1 million to prevent gender-based violence in Cox’s Bazar

The Daily Star

Star Online Report
November 10, 2020 

Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar. Photo: Star/ Anisur Rahman

Korea has provided $1 million to Unicef Bangladesh this year for activities to help prevent gender-based violence particularly in Cox's Bazar.

This assistance will help protect women, adolescents, and girls in the Rohingya refugee camp and the host community from gender-based violence and its consequences, especially amid the increasing gender-based violence cases in the prolonged Covid-19 pandemic, Korean embassy in Dhaka said in a statement today.

Japan to provide $5m for Rohingyas, local farmers in Cox's Bazar

Dhaka Tribune  

Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan z
October 21st, 2020

Photo: REUTERS

The contribution will support 2,400 Bangladeshi local farmers in Cox’s Bazar district who will provide fresh, locally sourced vegetables at the market servicing 20,000 Rohingyas

The government of Japan will provide $5 million to support the Rohingyas sheltered in Cox’s Bazar and the local farmers.

Three years on: Rohingyas at a crossroad

News and Press Release
DRC
22 Oct 2020 

Why Bangladesh Must Let the Rohingya Speak for Themselves

THE I DIPLOMAT

By Saad Hammadi
October 16, 2020

 

Any durable solution for the Rohingya will not come through more restrictions on their lives.

People shop for vegetables at the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Tuesday, June 2, 2020. Credit: AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh drew the attention and concern of the world when they fled deadly violence in Myanmar in 2017. Three years later, they are among the most disempowered people in the world, with the least control over their lives. Recent events have accentuated this, and it is time for change.

IOM, UK Emergency Medical Team Continue COVID-19 Health Support for Refugees, Locals in Cox’s Bazar

IOM UN Migration
Date:10/13/20

Cox’s Bazar – From the outset of the COVID-19 health crisis in Bangladesh, humanitarian agencies in Cox's Bazar have worked around the clock to prepare to effectively respond to the outbreak in the district, which hosts one of the largest refugee settlements in the world.

Key to this enormous effort includes enhancing existing partnerships and seeking new collaborative opportunities to address the lack of technical expertise and strained human resources in an already complex refugee crisis.