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Poor access to clean drinking water and basic health services, coupled with frequent monsoon rains, has sparked growing concern of an outbreak of water-borne diseases like cholera among Rohingyas who fled persecution and violence in Myanmar. Thursday,…

By Diana Shaw In a makeshift camp in Bangladesh, 25-year-old Shovika Mia holds her newborn daughter. Shovika gave birth to baby Nur Halima in the hills while fleeing her home in Myanmar. She and her husband, Shona, are among…

Highlights An estimated 501,800 Rohingya have crossed the border into Bangladesh since 25 August 2017, including 448,100 in four upazilas of Cox’s Bazar district, 35,000 in registered refugee camps, and 18,700 in Naikhongchhari of Bandarbhan district. Since the…

Dhaka/Kuala Lumpur/Geneva, 29 September 2017 — Red Crescent mobile clinics in Cox’s Bazar are treating an increasing number of people with acute watery diarrhoea, raising concerns about a possible outbreak of disease among the estimated 480,000…

KEY HIGHLIGHTS Since 25 August more than 430 000 people have crossed the border and entered Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar (as of 22 September). The number of new arrivals has reduced substantially over the last week . As of…

Plus de 400 000 personnes ont fui les violences continues au Myanmar pour se réfugier au Bangladesh voisin. La région est au bord d’une catastrophe humanitaire. La CRS a débloqué une enveloppe d’au moins 500 000…

More than 300,000 women and children who have fled from Myanmar to Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh are in urgent need of safe shelter, health services, sanitary facilities and protection, warns the international aid organization CARE. “Our team…

After an escalation of violence in Myanmar more than 436,000 people have fled to Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh as of 24 Sept (Source: ISCG Report 24 Sept). They are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance (shelter,…

More than 70 per cent of the nearly 480,000 Rohingya refugees who have fled to Bangladesh are without adequate shelter and half have no safe drinking water, Oxfam warned today. The international agency has launched an urgent…

BRAC installed 392 tube-wells up to yesterday Tuesday (26 September) in 10 shelters in Ukhia and Teknaf upazilas of Cox’s Bazar for the distressed people arriving from the Rakhaine state of Myanmar. Besides these, 765 latrines…