WFP to implement $35m project for Rohingya refugees

The Daily Star

Diplomatic Correspondent
June 05, 2020

The UN World Food Programme will implement a $35 million project to provide work opportunities and community services among the Rohingya population in Cox's Bazar.

This funding is part of the World Bank's $165 million grant meant to the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief. The WFP is partnering with the disaster management ministry to implement the project.

Curious revival of Myanmar’s rag-tag Rohingya rebels

ASIA TIMES

by David Scott Mathieson
May 5, 2020

Myanmar military is pumping up the poorly armed and shadowy insurgent group's threat to justify its Rohingya genocide

A silhouetted Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army fighter against the rebel group's flag. Photo: Youtube

As armed conflict rages between the insurgent Arakan Army (AA) and Myanmar military, or Tatmadaw, killing scores of civilians and displacing tens of thousands in incessant artillery and air strikes in Rakhine and Chin states, another largely forgotten armed group has re-entered the fray.

Cox's Bazar - External Situation Report (January 2020)

WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME
Source WFP
Published 27 Feb 2020

US Embassy will urge the State Government to be effective in the provision of aid to Rakhine IDPs

Narinjara

Monday, February 24, 2020

The US Embassy will urge the Rakhine State Government to be effective in aid provision to Rakhine IDPs, the Yangon based US Embassy’s Deputy Chief of Mission Mr George Neil Sibley has confirmed while meeting with Rakhine State Parliamentarians.

According to Deputy Speaker U Myat Than, who spoke with Narinjara, Mr George Neil Sibley said this while being received by the Rakhine Parliament Speaker U San Kyaw Hla on February 20th.

WFP in Bangladesh welcomes a new contribution of £8 million from the United Kingdom to support the Rohingya refugees

World Food Programme
30 January 2020

DHAKA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Bangladesh welcomes a new contribution of GBP 8 million (USD10,296,010) from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) to support the Rohingya refugee response in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

This new contribution will support WFP to provide 270,600 refugees with life-saving assistance over three months through electronic vouchers (e-vouchers). This programme allows refugees to purchase a variety of food items from 25 WFP e-voucher outlets across the Rohingya refugee camps.

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ-ပိုက္ဆံေထာက္ပံ့မယ့္သတင္းေၾကာင့္ ရခိုင္မွာ ဆန္ေဈးေတြ တက္လာၿပီ လို႔ဆို

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ဘီဘီစီ ၿမန္မာပိုင္း
2020-01-06

WFP က လစဥ္ ပုံမွန္ေဝတဲ့ ရိကၡာေတြကို ျမန္မာနဲ႔ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ဘက္မွာရွိတဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြက အားထားေနရတာပါ။

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ စစ္ေတြၿမိဳ႕မွာရွိတဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္စခန္းက ဒုကၡသည္ေတြကို WFP က စားနပ္ရိကၡာ ေတြ မေပးေတာ့ဘဲ ပိုက္ဆံပဲ ေထာက္ပံ့လိုက္တဲ့အတြက္ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ အခက္အခဲနဲ႔ၾကဳံ ေနရတယ္လို႔ သိရပါ တယ္။

WFP Bangladesh: Rohingya Refugee Response | Situation Report #30 (25 September 2019)

relief web
30 Sep 2019

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. 

Situation may worsen without more funding for Rohingyas, warns WFP

Dhaka Tribune

Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan  

September 15th, 2019 

 

 Distressed rohngya women and children at a camp in Cox Bazar Mahmud Hossain Opu

At a regular briefing in Geneva on Friday, WFP spokesperson Hervé Verhoosel explained that it costs the food-assistance branch of the global body $16 million every month to feed almost 900,000 Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar

The World Food Programme (WFP), the food-assistance branch of the United Nations, has warned that the situation in regards to feeding hundreds of Rohingyas sheltered in Cox’s Bazar could deteriorate ‘rapidly’ if the adequate funding is not made available.

မိုးဒဏ္သင့္ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြအတြက္ WFP အေရး ေပၚကူညီ

VOA

ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

15 စက္တင္ဘာ၊ 2019
မသိဂႌထုိက္

ေရႀကီးေနတဲ့ ကူတူပေလာင္ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းထဲ ျဖတ္ကူးလာေနသည့္ ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာကေလးမေလးတဦး။ (ဇူလုိင္ ၄၊ ၂၀၁၈)

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏုိင္ငံ ေကာ့ဇ္ဘဇားမွာ ဒီသီတင္းပတ္အတြင္း မိုးသည္းထန္ၿပီး ပိုင္ဆိုင္မႈေတြအားလံုး ေရ ထဲ ေမ်ာပါ ဆံုး႐ႈံးခဲ့ရတဲ့ ေထာင္နဲ႔ခ်ီတဲ့ ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို ကူညီ ေထာက္ပံ့ဖို႔အတြက္ ကမၻာ့စားနပ္ရိကၡာအဖြဲ႔ WFP က ဒီႏွစ္အတြင္း အႀကီးမားဆံုး ကယ္ဆယ္ေရးအစီအစဥ္ကို စတင္လုိက္ပါတယ္။ ဂ်ီနီဗာကေန Lisa Schlein သတင္းေပးပို႔ထားတာကို မသိဂႌထုိက္က တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။

WFP Bangladesh: Rohingya Refugee Response | Situation Report #28 (18 July 2019)

As monsoon rains pound Rohingya refugee camps, UN food relief agency steps up aid

UN News 
12 July 2019

Humanitarian Aid

 

WFP/Gemma Snowdon,Days of heavy monsoon rains and wind have pounded the refugee camps in the Cox’s Bazar area of Bangladesh since 4 July 2019.

Since 4 July, heavy monsoon rains and wind have pounded the refugee camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, with deaths, displacement and major damage following in their wake, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. 

Those in the most vulnerable living situations have been relocated to safer, newly developed land in the camps”, WFP Spokesperson Herve Verhoosel told the regular news briefing in Geneva, noting that 5,600 people had been displaced.

No hurry to relocate Rohingyas to Bhasan Char, says Junior Minister Enamur.

bdnews24.com
26 Mar 2019 10:14 AM BdST

Bangladesh is not in a hurry to relocate Rohingya refugees to a Bay of Bengal island, a minister told Reuters on Monday, after the United Nations sought more details on the government's plan, criticised by some human rights groups.

Bangladesh wants to move 100,000 of the nearly 1 million Rohingya Muslims sheltered in cramped camps in its southeastern district of Cox's Bazar to the remote island, known as Bhasan Char which it has been developing for the past two years.

The United Nations is making plans to help Bangladesh with the move, Reuters reported last week.

Biotech firm, WFP team up for Rohingya

The Japan News

8:17 pm, February 26, 2019

                                                            Courtesy of Euglena Co.
                    Workers harvest mung beans in Bangladesh, cultivating the vegetable with the help of Euglena GG.

The Yomiuri Shimbun

A Tokyo-based biotechnology venture, Euglena Co., has formed a business tie-up with the World Food Program to introduce a cultivation technique for mung beans to Bangladesh and deliver the beans to Rohingya Muslims who have fled to the country.

Amnesty: Myanmar army ops target Rakhine state.

5,200 men, women, children displaced due to ongoing fighting by Jan. 28, according to human rights group citing UN figures.

11.02.2019

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal

LONDON

Myanmar security forces have shelled villages and blocked civilians from accessing food and humanitarian assistance in western Rakhine state since early 2019, a rights groups said Monday.

“Security forces have also used vague and repressive laws to detain civilians in the area,” according to the Amnesty International report based on fresh evidence on ongoing military operations.

Foreign minister seeks Vietnam's assistance

Diplomatic Correspondent 
January 30, 2019

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said Bangladesh is committed to the voluntary repatriation of Rohingya refugees to their homeland as soon as Myanmar creates a conducive environment for their safe return.

အေထာက္အပံ့ ျဖတ္ေတာက္မႈ ရခိုင္ေဒသခံတခ်ိဳ႕ ထိခိုက္

ေထာက္‌ပံ့ကူညီမႈ လိုအပ္ေနေသာ ရ‌ေသ့‌ေတာင္‌ၿမိဳ႕နယ္‌၊ သက္‌ျပည္‌က် စစ‌္‌‌ေဘး‌ေရွာင္‌ စခန္‌း။ (ဇန္န၀ါရီ ၁၂၊ ၂၀၁၉ ဓာတ္ပံု - Rakhine Ethnics Congress)

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္တြင္း ကယ္ဆယ္ကူညီေရး လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနမႈေတြကို ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္အစိုးရက ဒီလထဲမွာပဲ တားျမစ္လိုက္တဲ့အတြက္ ေဒသခံ အနည္းဆံုး ၅ ေသာင္းေလာက္အေပၚ သက္ေရာက္မႈရွိေနတယ္လို႔ ကုလသမဂၢ လူသားခ်င္းစာနာမႈဆိုင္ရာပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ေရးရံုး UNOCHA ရဲ႕ မွတ္ခ်က္ေရး ေျပာၾကား ခ်က္ကို ရိုက္တားစ္ သတင္းမွာ ေဖၚျပထားပါတယ္။

WFP’s Princess Sarah Zeid suggests ‘multi-track diplomacy’ to resolve Rohingya crisis

Senior Correspondent  bdnews24.com Published: 25 Jan 2019

 
Princess Sarah Zeid of Jordan, Special Adviser to World Food Programme (WFP), has stressed “multi-track diplomacy” to resolve Rohingya crisis.

“All should continue to push for accountability and safe and dignified return of the Rohingyas to Myanmar,” she said while meeting Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Thursday at the foreign ministry.

Dhaka for mounting pressure on Myanmar

24 January, 2019 08:24

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Thursday urged the global leaders for creating pressure on Myanmar for the repatriation of Rohingyas to their homeland.

Emphasising the need for a peaceful and amicable solution to the Rohingya issue, heparticularly urgedSpecial Adviser to World Food Programme (WFP)Princess Sarah Zeidto raise her voice to reach out to the world about the atrocities committed against the Rohingya people.

UN to Myanmar: Allow aid in conflict zones.

BY THE MANILA TIMES 

JANUARY 21, 2019

Calling on the Myanmar government to “immediately reverse its decision not to allow access to all humanitarian organizations,” the United Nations (UN) expert on human rights in the South-East Asian country said that “it’s vital that assistance is able to reach those who have fled violence in the region.”