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A boy carries bamboo along a very muddy road into the Balukali camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.  In preparation for the monsoon season, a frenzy of building and reinforcement required vast quantities of bamboo.  13 June 2018.
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Bamboo-boring beetles wreak havoc in Rohingya refugee camps, UN agency races to respond

Beset by millions of bamboo-chomping beetles, almost every shelter in the vast Rohingya refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, in Bangladesh, needs replacing. With just over four months to go until the beginning of the monsoon season, the race is on for IOM, the United Nations migration agency which is managing the camp, to provide families living in the worst-affected temporary dwellings, with new and more durable bamboo.

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A Rohingya refugee from Myanmar, sits with two out of her four children in their shelter at Nayapara camp, south-east Bangladesh.
UNHCR/Chris Melzer

Rohingya returns only ‘at their freely expressed wish’ – UN refugee chief

Returns of Rohingya refugees, forced to flee their homes due to widespread and systematic violence in northern Myanmar, “should only take place at their freely expressed wish” the United Nations top refugee official has stressed, amid concerns that conditions at places of origin are not yet conducive to safe, dignified and sustainable returns.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh addresses the seventy-third session of the United Nations General Assembly.
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Bangladesh ‘disappointed’ at lack of progress in alleviating plight of Rohingya, Prime Minister tells UN Assembly

The world cannot ignore or remain silent over the plight of the Rohingya people – driven from their homes in Myanmar and sheltering in Bangladesh – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, urging world leaders for an early and peaceful solution to the massive refugee crisis.