UN seeking more than 0m for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh | Rohingya News

UN seeking more than $850m for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh | Rohingya News

Bangladesh hosts more than a million Rohingya people, many of whom fled a 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar. The United Nations is calling for more donations for Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh. In its annual response plan to the crisis, the UN appealed for $852.4m to provide food…

‘India Out’ campaigns simmer in Bangladesh amid election fallout | Business and Economy News

‘India Out’ campaigns simmer in Bangladesh amid election fallout | Business and Economy News

Amid allegations of Indian interference in national elections, there’s a call to boycott Indian goods in Bangladesh. Last week, a supplier for the Indian consumer goods giant Marico faced a chilly reception in Dhaka’s Panthapath area. Grocery shops, usually eager to stock their shelves with its hair oil, cooking oil, body…

UNHCR: 569 Rohingya died at sea in 2023, highest in nine years | Rohingya News

UNHCR: 569 Rohingya died at sea in 2023, highest in nine years | Rohingya News

People from the mostly Muslim Myanmar minority continue to make perilous journeys across the sea in search of safety. Some 569 Rohingya people died or went missing at sea last year – the most since 2014 – as they embarked on dangerous boat journeys to Southeast Asia, according to the…

As West condemns Bangladesh election, China and Russia embrace Dhaka | Politics News

As West condemns Bangladesh election, China and Russia embrace Dhaka | Politics News

Dhaka, Bangladesh — Hours after Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League was declared the landslide winner in Sunday’s election, which the opposition had boycotted, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hosted a queue of foreign diplomats, each coming to congratulate her. The envoys of India, the Philippines, Singapore and other nations were there. Also…

Hasina remains the high priestess of Bangladesh’s dynastic democracy | Sheikh Hasina

Hasina remains the high priestess of Bangladesh’s dynastic democracy | Sheikh Hasina

It has been said that for the past 15 years, Bangladesh’s elections have been so skewed in favour of the ruling Awami League, they are enough to make North Korea’s Kim Jong Un squirm with envy. An unfair comparison perhaps, but Sunday’s results, where the party, led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, secured 222 seats out of 300, are enough…

Sheikh Hasina: Once Bangladesh’s democracy icon, now its ‘authoritarian’ PM | Sheikh Hasina News

Sheikh Hasina: Once Bangladesh’s democracy icon, now its ‘authoritarian’ PM | Sheikh Hasina News

Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina once joined her rivals in a fight to restore democracy but her long reign in power has been marked by arrests of opposition leaders, crackdowns on free speech and suppression of dissent. Hasina, 76, won a fourth straight term and fifth overall in power by…

Sheikh Hasina wins fifth term in Bangladesh amid turnout controversy | Elections News

Sheikh Hasina wins fifth term in Bangladesh amid turnout controversy | Elections News

Sheikh Hasina has secured her fifth term as Bangladeshi prime minister in an election whose outcome was decided the moment its schedule was announced in early November when the main opposition boycotted the poll. The surprise was who came second. Instead of any political party, independent candidates secured a total…