Informes

In Numbers 12,271 MT of food assistance distributed US$2.21 m cash based transfers made 685,400 refugees receiving food assistance US$111.18 m six months (April-September 2018) net funding requirements, representing 32% of total Operational Updates WFP continues with its Level 3 emergency response…

Highlights • The WFP Level 3 Emergency Response for the refugee crisis in Bangladesh-Myanmar has been extended until 21 March 2018. • An estimated 655,500 refugees have arrived in Bangladesh since violence broke out in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine…

Highlights • An estimated 688,000 refugees have arrived in Bangladesh since violence broke out in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State on 25 August 2017. • WFP is providing food assistance to the influx through the provision of a general…

Highlights WFP continues with the Level 3 emergency response as 607,000 refugees have arrived in Bangladesh since violence broke out in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State on 25 August 2017. WFP is providing food assistance to the increasing influx…

The recent monsoon floods hitting South Asia have been among the most severe in years, leaving some 1,400 people dead, millions displaced and worsening the plight of hundreds of thousands fleeing violence in Myanmar to seek…

New research shows that in Bangladesh, heat wave predictability exists from a few days to several weeks in advance, which could save thousands of lives. In the United States, extreme heat events have killed more people in…

by Hassan Ahmadul, Climate Centre, Dhaka The Chinese Red Cross has donated US$100,000 to the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) to assist with its ongoing monsoon flood-relief operation in wetland haor areas of the country’s north-east region. “Vast…

By Raqibul Alam, IFRC At least 140 people, most of them women and young children, have been reported dead after landslides triggered by days of severe rain swept down Chittagong Hills, just two weeks after Cyclone Mora…

Dhaka/Kuala Lumpur, 13 June 2017 – Southeast Bangladesh is reeling from the effects of the monsoon season as days of severe rains have triggered landslides in the Chittagong Hills, reportedly killing more than 40 people and…

By Hassan Ahmadul, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Dhaka The Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) yesterday distributed a humanitarian cash grant to 2,300 households threatened by Cyclonic Storm Mora, then over the east-central Bay of Bengal…