Food aid operation begins to reach two million affected by Myanmar crisis

UN News
22 April 2021
Peace and Security

UNICEF/Kaung Htet According to WFP, food prices have risen sharply since the start of the political crisis in Myanmar. Pictured here, a grandmother washes vegetables to prepare a meal at her home in the country’s Shan state. (file photo)

Two million people facing growing food insecurity linked to the ongoing political crisis in Myanmar are to receive nutrition assistance, amid rising “hunger and desperation”, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Thursday.

The operation will focus on poor townships in Myanmar’s main cities “and other areas where population displacement has recently taken place” since the 1 February coup, WFP said in a statement.

WFP reopens fresh food corners at Rohingya camps

The Daily Star 

Unb, Dhaka
October 29, 2020

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has reopened its fresh food corners at Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar, allowing trade and business activities to resume after months of closure due to Covid-19 prevention measures.

By May 2021, WFP hopes to bring the farmers' market to 30 percent of the population at the camps, with monthly transactions touching $500,000.

Monsoon destroys Rohingya shelters, sparking record UN emergency food agency response in Bangladesh

UN News

13 September 2019

Humanitarian Aid

 

WFP/Nihab Rahman
The UN World Food Programme launched its biggest rapid food response following heavy rains and flash flooding in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camps and host communities. 

 

Unusually heavy monsoon rains have inundated shelters in refugee camps in southern Bangladesh creating “havoc”, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday, as it launched its biggest emergency response of the year for displaced Rohingya families. 

Muslims from Gutapyin village face day-to-day difficulties

Bni
Friday, June 21, 2019
Development Media Group

More than 100 Muslim households were provided shelter in Gutapyin village in Buthidaung Township by the government, but they face troubles in their daily lives, according to village manager Mahmed Tawyoke.

Turkish agency sends food to 1,012 Rohingya families

AA

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.