Gunmen killed at least seven people and left others wounded in an assault Friday on an Islamic seminary in a Rohingya refugee camp on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, police said.

Seven killed in Bangladesh Rohingya refugee camp attack

Bangladesh police arrested at least 16 Rohingya refugees after a series of raids in camps in Dhaka. This comes in after the murder of a top Rohingya community leader last week.

Bangladesh: 16 Rohingya arrested in anti-militant crackdown

Bangladesh wants to send more than 80,000 Rohingya refugees to a remote island in the Bay of Bengal after sealing an agreement for the United Nations to provide help, officials said Friday.

Bangladesh plans to move 81,000 Rohingya to island after UN deal: Officials

A militant group accused of killing a popular Rohingya leader in a Bangladesh refugee camp said on Friday it was "shocked and saddened" by his death, pointing the finger at "unidentified criminals".

Militant group accused of Rohingya leader's death blame 'unidentified criminals'

Mohib Ullah, a top Rohingya community leader was shot dead on Wednesday in Bangladesh's resort district of Cox's Bazar. As per police spokesman of Cox's Bazar, Mohib Ullah was talking with other refugee leaders outside his office after evening prayers when four assailants shot him dead.

Top Rohingya community leader shot dead in Bangladesh

Gunmen shot and killed a prominent Rohingya Muslim leader in a refugee camp in southern Bangladesh on Wednesday, a United Nations spokesperson and a local police official said, following months of worsening violence in the world's largest refugee settlement. Watch this report for more details.

Bangladesh: Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah shot dead

Myanmar will vaccinate minority Muslim Rohingya people against the coronavirus, a spokesman for its ruling military said on Friday, adding that no one will be left behind in its inoculation campaign.

Myanmar will extend COVID-19 vaccinations to Rohingya

Officials said Tuesday at least six Rohingya were killed and thousands more were relocated to refugee camps in Bangladesh's southeast after heavy rains triggered landslides and flooding in hilly settlements.

Landslides in Bangladesh kill six Rohingyas, forces thousands to flee

A shadow government in Myanmar called on Rohingya minority on Thursday and urged them to join the fight to overthrow the military junta. It has promised citizenship and repatriation for the persecuted Muslim community in a future democratic Myanmar.

Myanmar: Shadow government urges Rohingya to fight against military junta

Several thousand Rohingya staged "unruly" protests Monday against living conditions on a cyclone-prone island off Bangladesh where they were moved from vast camps on the mainland, police said.

Thousands of Rohingya protest against conditions on Bangladesh island

Bangladesh has imposed a lockdown in Rohingya camps after a series of small outbreaks. In the congested & squalid shanties of Cox's Bazar - a widespread outbreak could prove to be deadly. Mariam Wardak gets you the report.

South Asia Diary: Lockdown at Rohingya camps in Bangladesh

Bangladesh Minister of Foreign Affairs AK Abdul Momen said that Bangladesh is "very lucky" that Indian PM Narendra Modi will be a part of two of its major celebrations in an exclusive interview with WION's Executive Editor Palki Sharma.

Bangladesh 'very lucky' to host PM Narendra Modi for major celebrations: Foreign Minister Momen

Bangladesh is under "no obligation" to shelter 81 Rohingya Muslim refugees adrift for almost two weeks on the Andaman Sea and being assisted by neighbouring India, said Bangladesh foreign minister A.

Bangladesh under 'no obligation' to accept stranded Rohingya refugees, minister says

India's coast guard rescued 81 Rohingya refugees from a boat adrift in the Andaman Sea, India's external affairs ministry said on Thursday. "The engine of the boat failed on February 15 and since then it has been drifting," Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said in a press briefing.

Indian coast guard rescues 81 Rohingya refugees stranded on boat in Andaman Sea

The United Nations refugee agency called on Monday for the immediate rescue of a group of Rohingya refugees adrift in their boat in the Andaman Sea without food or water, many of them ill and suffering from extreme dehydration.

UN refugee agency calls for rescue of Rohingya stranded at sea

Bangladesh authorities have sent a fourth group of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to a newly developed island in the Bay of Bengal on Monday. The roughly 2,000 Rohingya, who had been living in the sprawling refugee camps of Cox's Bazar, were sent to Bhasan Char, an island specifically developed to accommodate 100,000 of the one million Rohingya, who have fled from neighbouring Myanmar, M.

Bangladesh sends fourth batch of Rohingya refugees to new island

Dozens of Rohingya, mostly women and children, were caught as they arrived by boat in Malaysia last month after fleeing a refugee camp in neighbouring Indonesia, police said Friday.

Dozens of Rohingya refugees caught arriving in Malaysia

Rohingya refugees who fled the violence in Myanmar condemn the overthrow of the democratically elected government by the military in the country.

Myanmar: Rohingyas condemn ouster of democratically-elected govt

Authorities in Bangladesh on Friday moved more than 1,750 Rohingya Muslims to a controversial island in the Bay of Bengal despite complaints made by refugees already there.

Bangladesh continues to move thousands of Rohingya Muslims to remote island

Hundreds of Rohingya refugees are missing from a refugee camp in Indonesia. There are fears that the refugees have been trafficked to neighbouring Malaysia. The makeshift camp only has 112 refugees.

Hundreds of Rohingyas go missing from Indonesian refugee camp

Bangladesh is preparing to move 2000-3000 more Rohingya refugees to the Bhasan Char, a remote Bay of Bengal island that critics say is vulnerable to storms and flooding.

Bangladesh to send more Rohingya refugees to remote island despite criticism

Bangladesh will buy 100,000 tonnes of rice from Myanmar, putting aside a rift over the Rohingya refugee crisis as the government races to overcome a shortage of the staple food for the country's more than 160 million people.

Bangladesh to buy rice from Myanmar, putting aside Rohingya crisis

Bangladesh is in the process of relocating 100,000 Rohingyas from the world's largest refugee camp at Cox's Bazar to the island of #BhasanChar. It's a herculean task. What are the challenges? Why is it considered controversial? WION's Johan Castell gets you a ground report from Bangladesh.

WION Wideangle: Rohingya Relocation: A ground report from Bangladesh

A secretary-level tripartite meeting between Bangladesh, China and Myanmar will be held on Tuesday (January 19th) at noon. A Chinese Vice Minister and Permanent Secretary of Myanmar will discuss Rohingya repatriation with Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh Masood bin Momen.

Bangladesh, China, Myanmar to hold tripartite meeting on Rohingyas on Jan 19

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