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SUDAN DARFUR CRISIS Events: "People are dying now because they are living in totally unsatisfactory conditions, and many more could die in the coming weeks unless we prevent the lack of sanitation, malnutrition, shortage of clean water and the coming rains from…

ANNUAL PROGRAM STATEMENT (APS) USAID/DCHA/OFDA Pursuant to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, the United States Government (USG), as represented by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA), Office of U.S.…

DHAKA (July 9) XINHUA - The Bangladeshi government is considering some food security strategies to do away with continued dependence on the food import, the Daily Star newspaper reported Friday. The strategies include keeping the public sector food reserve at one…

By Syed Ahmeduzzaman DHAKA, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Bangladesh suffered the worst flooding in its history last year but now has enough food and foreign exchange to see it comfortably through 1999, officials said on Tuesday. The economy was ravaged from…

DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT Although Bangladesh has diversified its economy, it continues to be one of the poorest countries in the world and, with its 120 million people, the most densely populated. While some progress has been achieved in meeting the basic…

MISSION HIGHLIGHTS Unprecedented floods from July to September caused around 2.2 million tonnes of rice production losses. Monsoon rice production (Aus and Aman) in 1998 will be 14 percent and 20 percent lower than 1997 and 1996 (a…

By Anis Ahmed DHAKA, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Thursday Bangladesh had enough food in stock and in the pipeline to overcome losses caused by the country's worst ever floods. But she cautioned that for geographic and…

By Anis Ahmed DHAKA, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The danger faced by Bangladeshis during more than two months of devastating flooding has receded along with water levels but the task of putting their lives back together remains. Efforts intensified on Tuesday…

DHAKA, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Families who took refuge in crammed shelters in Bangladesh's capital began returning home on Monday as floodwaters which had inundated large areas of the city for more than two months receded, officials said. In the…

DHAKA, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Bangladesh on Tuesday said it would send a team to neighbouring countries to buy 350,000 tonnes of rice to meet an immediate shortfall of foodgrains following crop losses due to the country's devastating floods. "We…