Monsoon may worsen already precarious situation in Rohingya camps: UN, aid agencies

The Daily Star
Star Online Report
June 23, 2020 

UN and other aid agencies are concerned that the monsoon will exacerbate an already precarious situation in the Rohingya camps where almost 860,000 refugees live in overcrowded conditions, many situated in hazardous terrain.

The monsoon, with heavy rains in the past few days, brings contamination of drinking water sources and raises increased risk of water-borne disease outbreaks in the camps and adjacent Bangladeshi communities, on top of the Covid-19 pandemic, they said.

Rohingyas suffer due to non-stop rainfall

Dhaka Tribune
Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan
Published July 14th, 2019

Non-stop rainfall has left most of the Rohingya refugee camps waterlogged Courtesy

200,000 camp residents categorized as vulnerable

The suffering of hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas living in the settlement camps in Cox’s Bazar continues due to non-stop rainfall for more than two weeks, posing challenges for the administration to deal with the situation.

Efforts Underway to Help Rohingya in Bangladesh Weather Next Monsoon Season

VOA
East Asia
April 06, 2019 9:46 AM
Lisa Schlein

FILE - Rohingya refugee women carry baskets of dried out mud from the riverbed to help raise the ground level of their camp in preparation for monsoon season, in Shamlapur refugee camp, in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh, March 24, 2018.

GENEVA —
The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR and partners are scaling up emergency preparations to help hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees withstand a second monsoon season in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

Bangladesh monsoon aid agencies prepare for wet season

Aljazeera
by Stefanie Dekker, March 17,2019
  
It is estimated that up to 200,000 Rohingya refugees could be at risk.





Aid agencies in Bangladesh are preparing for monsoon season - which could start as early as next month and last until October.