Myanmar warns U.N. scolding could harm talks with Bangladesh on Rohingya crisis
Arakan News Agency Myanmar warned on Wednesday that a scolding delivered by the U.N. Security Council could “seriously harm” its talks with Bangladesh over returning home more than 600,000 people who fled to escape a Myanmar military crackdown. In a statement on Monday, the Security Council had urged Myanmar to “ensure no further excessive use […]
U.N. Security Council urges Myanmar to stop excessive military force
Arakan News Agency The United Nations Security Council urged the Myanmar government on Monday to “ensure no further excessive use of military force in Arakan state,” where violence has forced more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee the Buddhist-majority Asian country. The United Nations has denounced the violence during the past 10 weeks as a […]
Nearly half a million children are looking for their parents in Bangladesh
Arakan News Agency About half a million Rohingya children in Bangladeshi refugee camps are seeking to find their parents after having been forced to flee the persecution of Myanmar’s army and extremist Buddhist militias. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported that “the majority of those fleeing the province of Arakan in western Myanmar to […]
192 thousand riyals donations from “Petroleum Development Oman” to help refugees “Rohingya”
Arakan News Agency More than 2,000 staff of Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) has donated OMR192,000 to help the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who have fled from their homes to escape the persecution in Myanmar. The staff has contributed from their salaries in a company-wide appeal to aid the Rohingya refugees who have crossed […]
Rohingya children are malnourished in Bangladesh
Arakan News Agency The United Nations warned on Friday that malnutrition among the Rohingya children refugees who fled Myanmar to Bangladesh has risen to high levels that are a threat to their lives. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said preliminary figures show that 7.5 percent of children in one of the overcrowded Cox’s Bazar […]
First results of family counting in Bangladesh find every third refugee household vulnerable
Arakan News Agency This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Duniya Aslam Khan – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has just completed the first phase of Rohingya refugee family counting, where more […]
Rohingya return rests on safety and trust, says UNHCR’s Volker Türk
Arakan News Agency UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection assured Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh that any return must be voluntary, safe and dignified. The UN Refugee Agency’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Volker Türk, concluded his visit to Bangladesh today with a call to mitigate the impact of refugees on host communities and to respect […]
‘Thousands’ of Rohingya waiting to sail to safety in Bangladesh
Arakan News Agency Several thousand are stranded on Myanmar’s shores in deteriorating conditions, waiting for boats to take them across the Naf River. SHAH PORIR DWIP, Bangladesh – Thousands of desperate Rohingya are waiting on the Myanmar coast to cross the Naf River to Bangladesh, say refugees who arrived by boat in recent days. For […]
Rohingya continued to resort to Bangladesh as the crisis entered its third month
Arakan News Agency UNHCR issues a press release pointing out that the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh has entered its third month Hundreds of Rohingya people, fleeing targeted violence in Myanmar’s Arakan state, continue to enter Bangladesh as the refugee crisis enters its third month. The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR said it was providing urgent aid […]
The United States hopes to resolve the Rohingya crisis diplomatically without excluding sanctions
Arakan News Agency The United States hopes for a diplomatic solution to the Rohingya crisis without ruling out the possibility of sanctions to pressure Myanmar, if necessary, a senior State Department official said on Sunday in Bangladesh. US Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs Mr.Thomas Shannon said resolving the humanitarian crisis for Rohingya through […]
KUWAIT: We have facilitated fundraising to help Rohingya Muslims
Arakan News Agency Kuwaiti Deputy Foreign Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid said that Kuwait’s “foreign affairs” have taken action against crimes committed by the Myanmar army against Muslims in Arakan province and facilitated the fundraising process to help them. According to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai, Al-Khalid said in reply to a question by […]
Bangladesh calls on the “Commonwealth” parliamentarians to intensify pressure on Myanmar over Rohingya
Arakan News Agency Bangladesh called on members of the Commonwealth parliaments to step up pressure on Myanmar to stop the persecution of the Muslim Rohingya minority and return them to their homes in Arakan province. This came during a speech by Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Sheikha Hasina Wajid at the opening of the 63rd Conference of […]
America urges Myanmar to return the Rohingya to their villages
Arakan News Agency The U.S. government will constantly monitor its sanctions regime to respond to violence in Myanmar’s Arakan state that has sent hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees across the border to Bangladesh, a senior U.S. official said on Saturday. “We are constantly evaluating the situation,” Simon Henshaw, Acting Assistant Secretary of State […]