Rapports

Fazila and her family from Dewangonj in Jamalpur District in north west Bangladesh lost everything in the recent floods in early August. They are not alone. Dewangonj was particularly badly affected by the floods which claimed the…

DHAKA – WFP is distributing food to people fleeing into Bangladesh to escape violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. An estimated 146,000 people have streamed across the border into the district of Cox’s Bazar since 25 August. So…

(Dhaka, 5 September 2017): Following heavy monsoon rains, one-third of Bangladesh has been affected by the worst flooding in four decades, impacting eight million people across 32 districts. Those people who have lost their homes, food…

Dhaka – IOM, the UN Migration Agency in Bangladesh today said that humanitarian assistance in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh must be urgently scaled up as tens of thousands of newly arrived Undocumented Myanmar Nationals (UMNs) continue to…

As fighting continues in northern Rakhine state, evidenced by smoke seen from the Bangladesh border in several places, the number of newly arrived refugees has now reached 123 600. Most of them walked 50/60 kilometres for up…

Kuala Lumpur/Geneva, 5 September 2017 — 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. “More than…

This report is produced by the Humanitarian Coordination Task Team (HCTT) of Bangladesh in collaboration with humanitarian partners. It covers the period from 28 August to 3 September 2017. The next report will be issued on…

01 September 2017 2,553,000 # of children in need of humanitarian assistance 6,900,000 # of people in need (HCTT Response Plan) UNICEF Appeal 2017 US$ 4.8 million Highlights More than six million people are affected by the flooding in northern and central Bangladesh that…

Situation Overview In the early hours of 25 August, coordinated attacks were staged against multiple police posts and an army base in Rakhine State, sparking retaliations. The extent and implications of the attack remain uncertain. To date,…

By Corinne Ambler/IFRC Laal Banu, 40, a widow and mother of five, has lost many of her modest possessions and faces an uncertain future after floods in northern Bangladesh devastated her home. As water surged all around, she…