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UNHCR’s Grandi Says KSRelief is the First to Send Team to Assess Rohingya Needs in Bangladesh

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...

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A group of Rohingya refugees takes shelter at the Kutuupalang makeshift refugee camp, after crossing the Myanmar-Bangladesh border in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. (Reuters)

More than 10,000 Rohingya Flee to Bangladesh since Monday, Says UNHCR

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....

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Rohingya Muslim refugees escape on a boat, Christophe Archambault/AFP

UNHCR Raises Concerns at Violence against Rohingyas in Sri Lanka

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 27, 2017 | World

The United Nations on Wednesday raised concern for the safety of stateless Rohingya Muslims seeking asylum in Sri Lanka after Buddhist monks and hardline nationalists forced them to flee a UN shelter in the capital Colombo. According to Reuters, in Tuesday’s incident,...

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Rohingya refugees rest after traveling over the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Teknaf, Bangladesh, September 1, 2017. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

Myanmar: Thousands of Homes Burned down in Rohingya-Majority Areas

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 2, 2017 | World

At least 2,600 homes have been burned down in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar’s northwest just in the last week, the government announced on Saturday. About 58,600 Rohingya have fled into neighboring Bangladesh from Myanmar, according to U.N. refugee agency UNHCR,...

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Jordanian Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Imad Fakhoury. UN

Jordan Reviews Economic Challenges with UN Team

by Mohamed Al-Daameh | Aug 30, 2017 | Business

Amman- Jordanian Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Imad Fakhoury Tuesday briefed a US fact-finding mission, affiliated with UNHCR, on the economic challenges facing Jordan as a result of the regional turmoil and hosting of the Syrian refugees....