Arakan border trade allowed to restart following 10-month suspension due to COVID-19

BNI
Thursday, April 22, 2021

Border trade in Arakan State, which was suspended for more than 10 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has been allowed to resume, according to U Than Tun, a member of the Arakan State Administration Council.

Permission was granted on April 12 to resume the Arakan border trade, he said.

“The border trade resumption is granted in line with COVID-19 prevention regulations,” he explained. “Currently, 10 commercial boats from Sittwe and six boats from Maungdaw left the jetty for trading. We have arranged a reserved place for workers from the boats to stay quarantined after their trip.”

Bangladesh, Myanmar Trade Blame over Stalled Rohingya Repatriation

Benar News  

Special to BenarNews
2019-06-10

Young Rohingya ride a traditional wooden ferris wheel during Eid al-Fitr celebrations at a refugee camp near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, June 5, 2019.  

 
Myanmar and neighboring Bangladesh have traded blame over stalled efforts to repatriate about 740,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees, who fled a brutal 2017 Myanmar military campaign that drove them from their villages to camps on the Bangladeshi side of their border.

The latest row flared up after Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told reporters in Dhaka that Myanmar was reluctant to take back the Rohingya Muslims despite a signed agreement to repatriate them.

Bangladesh: Chinese Envoy Rapped for Linking Rohingya Crisis to Economic Trade

Benar News

Kamran Reza Chowdhury and Jesmin Papri
Dhaka
2019-05-10

Rohingya children walk along a road at the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Nov.16, 2018.
Reuters

A Bangladeshi official and political observers on Friday criticized a statement by the Chinese ambassador, who suggested this week that the Rohingya refugee crisis could be solved through economic development in neighboring Myanmar’s Rakhine state.

Myanmar and Bangladesh Trade Blame, UN Concerned About Rohingya Crisis

IDN- InDepthNews

By J Nastranis,5th March 2019

Photo: Rohingya refugees walk towards a refugee camp after crossing the Myanmar-Bangladesh border. Credit: Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune

NEW YORK (IDN) – A humanitarian crisis continues to unfold on both sides of the Myanmar-Bangladesh border, with almost 1 million Rohingya people now living in the world's largest refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).