ISCG helps host community, Rohingyas prepare for monsoon

Bangladesh Post

By Coxs Bazar Correspondent

May.04, 2020

As rains and thunderstorms batter Cox’s Bazar as a prelude to the monsoon season, and the danger of the COVID-19 pandemic looms in the district, Inter Sector Coordination Group (ISCG) partners in support of Bangladesh are assisting thousands in the host community and Rohingya refugee camps to prepare for possible extreme weather, said a press release.

Bangladesh: Rohingya Face Monsoon Floods, Landslides

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

  July 12, 2019

Donor Support Critical for Refugees’ Safety, Protection  

Rohingya refugees walk in the rain during monsoon season in Jamtoli refugee camp, Bangladesh, June 26, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo

 (New York, July 12, 2019) – Rohingya refugees in crowded camps in Bangladesh are at serious risk of displacement and injury from monsoon flooding and landslides, Human Rights Watch said today. Since early July 2019, flooding and landslides have displaced nearly 6,000 refugees in the camps near Cox’s Bazar, damaged over 3,500 shelters, and killed two people, including a child.

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.