Bangladesh
2 Dec 2017
Pope Francis had an emotional meeting with Muslim refugees from Myanmar in Bangladesh on Friday, calling for them to be respected.
30 Nov 2017
Pope Francis arrives in Bangladesh where scores of Rohingya Muslims are seeking refuge from violence across the border.
1 Nov 2017
A small wooden fishing boat carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslims fleeing ethnic violence in Myanmar, capsized off the Bangladesh coast on Tuesday.
23 Oct 2017
Nearly 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh since August 2017.
17 Oct 2017
Drone footage shows vast numbers of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar entering Bangladesh, arriving by boat and walking through flooded fields.
7 Oct 2017
The United Nations is bracing for a possible “further exodus” of Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar into Bangladesh six weeks after the world’s fastest-developing refugee emergency began, its humanitarian aid chief says.
24 Sep 2017
More than 400,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh in the past weeks. In addition to the violence in Myanmar the refugees now have to cope with monsoon rains. The growing humanitarian crisis poses a huge challenge to Bangladeshi authorities.
10 Sep 2017
Turkish President Tayyip Erodgan met the leaders of Iran, Venezuela and Bangladesh in Kazakhstan's capital, Astana on the sidelines of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit where the plight of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar topped the agenda.
27 Aug 2017
Thousands of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar try to cross the border with Bangladesh, as fresh fighting erupts in Myanmar's northwestern Rakhine state.
14 Jun 2017
Heavy monsoon rains and landslides kill scores in south-east Bangladesh, burying many in their homes as they slept, authorities say.
30 Mar 2017
Migrants from north Africa, Gambia and Bangladesh are among the hundreds rescued from a wooden boat off Libya by an aid agency.
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