Rohingya refugee food aid to be halved from next month: UN

FRANCE 24
06/03/2025 

Bangladesh (AFP) – Rations will be halved for around one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh from next month due to a lack of funds, the United Nations food agency has said. 

Huge numbers of the persecuted and stateless Rohingya community live in squalid relief camps in Bangladesh, almost entirely dependent on limited humanitarian aid to survive © Ed JONES / AFP

Huge numbers of the persecuted and stateless Rohingya community live in squalid relief camps in Bangladesh, most arriving after having fled from a 2017 military crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar.

Successive aid cuts have already caused severe hardship among Rohingya in the overcrowded settlements, who are reliant on aid and suffer from rampant malnutrition.

World News in Brief: Food aid relief for Rohingya,

Unites Nation
Humanitarian Aid
2 January 2024  

A Rohingya refugee from Myanmar receives support from the UN in Bhasan Char in Bangladesh.

© WFP/Saikat Mojumder

Critical food aid support is to be stepped up for many hundreds of thousands of Myanmar refugees sheltering in neighbouring Bangladesh, the UN World Food Programme, WFP, announced on Tuesday.

 

“The entire Rohingya population” from Myanmar will benefit, according to the UN agency, which increased the value of its monthly food voucher from $8 to $10 per person on 1 January.

Turkey’s TIKA sends food aid to Rohingyas after huge camp fire

DAILY SABAH WITH REUTERS
ISTANBUL ASIA PACIFIC
MAR 25, 2021

A general view of the Rohingya refugee camp after a massive fire broke out two days ago and destroyed thousands of shelters in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 24, 2021. (Reuters Photo)

Turkey's state-run aid agency will provide two meals a day to approximately 20,000 people who were left without shelter after a massive blaze swept through a Bangladeshi refugee camp holding almost a million Rohingya Muslims on Monday, leaving at least 15 people dead, over 500 injured and nearly 50,000 homeless.

The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA), which plans to reestablish a kitchen in the region in a short time, will provide two hot meals a day to nearly 20,000 refugees in cooperation with the World Food Program (WFP), in an effort to help Rohingyas in Cox's Bazar district through difficult times.