by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 20, 2017 | World
Nearly 340,000 Rohingya children are seeing a “hell on earth” by living in squalid conditions in Bangladesh camps where they lack enough food, clean water and health care, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday. Up to 12,000 more...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 11, 2017 | Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Relief and Humanitarian Aid Center, also known as KSRelief, signed on Wednesday a joint cooperation pact with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR, said the Saudi state-owned press agency, SPA. The agreement was...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 11, 2017 | World
The United Nations human rights office accused on Wednesday security forces in Myanmar of not only violently driving away Muslim Rohingya from their homes in Rakhine state, but of also implementing “clearance operations” to prevent their return. The security forces...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 10, 2017 | World
More than 11,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees have arrived in Bangladesh from Myanmar on Monday in a new surge, said the United Nations refugee agency citing Bangladesh border guards. “We’re back in a situation of full alert as far as influxes are concerned....
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 6, 2017 | World
Thousands of Rohingya Muslims continue to flee from Myanmar to Bangladesh and the United Nations is bracing for a possible “further exodus”, the UN humanitarian aid chief said on Friday. Around 515,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh from Myanmar’s western state...
