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PM Hasina opens largest modern housing for climate refugees in Cox’s Bazar

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MNA National Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday opened special structures built under ‘Khurushkul Ashrayan Project’ in Cox’s Bazar for 600 climate refugees. The Prime Minister inaugurated the 20 five-storey structures constructed in the first phase of the world’s biggest climate refugee rehabilitation project at Khurushkul on the outskirts of Cox’s Bazar through a video conference from her official residence Ganobhaban. The 600 families are getting their new abodes with all modern facilities in 20 structures, each having 32 flats, constructed in the first phase on the bank of the Bakkhali River, just three kilometres off the beach town. ...

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Myanmar has ‘much more’ to do for safe Rohingya return: Ban Ki-moon

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MNA Editorial Desk: Former UN chief Ban Ki-moon believes Myanmar is not playing the role expected of it in repatriating refugees from Bangladesh to their homeland in order to resolve the Rohingya crisis. Speaking to the media after visiting the Rohingya people at refugee camps in southern Bangladesh district of Cox’s Bazar neighboring Myanmar on Wednesday, he voiced concerns over the ethnic group’s safety back in their country. The former United Nations secretary-general, who is working as chairman of the Global Commission on Adaptation, came to Cox’s Bazar to see the impact of the Rohingya population on the environment of ...

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Bangladesh hosts most Rohingyas from Myanmar: UNHCR

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MNA Editorial Desk: Refugees originating from Myanmar represented the fourth largest population group by country of origin and most Rohingyas from the Southeast Asian nation were hosted by Bangladesh (906,600) at the end of the year 2018, says a global report on Wednesday. However, according to government data, Bangladesh is now hosting over 1.2 million Rohingyas and majority of them came since August 25, 2017, when Myanmar military launched crackdown on the community. The number of people fleeing war, persecution, and conflict exceeded 70 million in 2018 and this is the highest level that UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has ...

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Myanmar to take back only recent Rohingyas

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MNA Exclusive Desk: Myanmar will take back only those refugees who fled to Bangladesh following the violence on Oct 9, 2016 and Aug 25 this year. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali briefed the media on Saturday on his recent trip to Myanmar and a Rohingya repatriation agreement signed with the Southeast Asian nation on Nov 23. The deal covers the residents of Rakhine State who have crossed over to Bangladesh after Oct 9, 2016 and Aug 25, 2017. The repatriation of residents who crossed over to Bangladesh earlier will be considered separately on the conclusion of the present agreement, according ...

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Myanmar ready to take back refugees: Suu Kyi

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MNA International Desk: Myanmar’s de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi says the country is ready to welcome back ‘verified’ refugees who have fled Myanmar to Bangladesh. “We are prepared to start the verification process at any time,” Suu Kyi said on Tuesday, in her first address since the start of the latest military crackdown in Rakhine state. “As our national security adviser has assured Bangladesh, and which I can confirm now, we are ready to start the verification process at any time and those who have been verified as refugees from this country will be accepted without any problems and ...

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Nigeria error air strike killed 52 refugees, aid workers

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MNA International Desk: At least 52 aid workers and civilians were killed on Tuesday when an air force jet accidentally bombed a camp in northeast Nigeria instead of Boko Haram militants, medical charity MSF said. The incident happened at about 9:00 am (0800 GMT) in Rann, in the far north of Borno state, the epicentre of the jihadists’ insurgency, as food was being distributed to displaced people. There was no official death toll from the military, which blamed “the fog of war” for the mistake, but one senior commander described the casualties from the air strike as “huge”. The medical ...

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300,000 refugees to arrive Germany this year

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MNA International Desk: Frank-Juergen Weise, the head of Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), told a German newspaper that he expected a maximum of 300,000 refugees to arrive in Germany this year. “We’re preparing for 250,000 to 300,000 refugees this year,” BAMF head said. Germans tend to use the word “refugee” to refer to both refugees and migrants who are seeking protection but do not have refugee status. Weise also said Germany took in fewer migrants in 2015 than previously thought because some were registered twice and others had moved on to other destinations. It had commonly been ...

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