DHAKA, Sept. 6 (NsNewsWire) — Since 11 August, with the massive employment of army in northern Arakan/Rakhine State, the Myanmar authorities have resumed unprecedented campaign of genocide against Rohingya population, said a press release of Arakan Rohingya National Organizaiton received here Wednesday. From 25 August the human rights situation of Rohingya became worse afteran armed […]

By Sheuli Akter DHAKA, Sept. 5 (NsNewsWire) — Hundreds of thousands of flood-affected people across Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan are struggling to survive in the aftermath of the worst flooding to hit the region in decades. Flood waters are receding in many areas but there are already shortages of critical supplies, with personal food […]

Dhaka, Sept. 4 (NsNewsWire) — UNICEF with partners are scaling up the emergency response in the flood-affected northern and central parts of Bangladesh. UNICEF is also providing urgent support in Cox’s Bazar district with the recent influx of Rohingya children and their families. Children are the hardest hit and require the support to survive and […]

DHAKA, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) — The death toll from a sunken boat packed with Rohingya people fleeing from Myanmar in a border river in southeastern Bangladesh rose to 20 on Thursday after another 14 bodies were retrieved, said a local police official. Chailau Marma, additional superintendent of police in Bangladesh‘s Cox’s Bazar district, some 292 […]

Boats are now the only lifeline for hundreds of people living on a remote island on Jamuna, one of the three major rivers in Bangladesh, reports Xinhua. Beribari Island in Bangladesh’s northern Sirajganj district, some 134 km northwest of Dhaka, has been left completely cut off from the mainland for a month by flesh floods […]