World News in Brief: Food aid relief for Rohingya,

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Humanitarian Aid
2 January 2024  

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

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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.