The Daily Star (TDS): Please provide a historical background of the Rohingya crisis.

The Daily Star (TDS): How do you evaluate the current global response to the Rohingya crisis?

Fifty-year-old Md Karim (pseudonym), who lives in the Unchiprang Rohingya Refugee Camp in Teknaf, collects water in some 15 jerry cans from a perennially crowded collection point on a daily basis.

Thirty-five-year-old Rokeya Begum (pseudonym) was struggling to meet her family’s demands four years ago when her intellectually disabled husband became physically ill all of a sudden due to a stroke.

The Daily Star (TDS): What could be the long-term economic impact in Bangladesh if the Rohingya crisis prolongs?

Scarcity has always been a constant companion to Hafsa Akter (psaudonym). It was so bad at one point that Hafsa’s kids were unable to attend school as she was unemployed while her husband was a day labour but could not find work everyday.

The Daily Star (TDS) What is the current situation of refugee relief and repatriation in the Rohingya camps?

The Daily Star (TDS): How will you evaluate the current status of Rohingya refugees?

Rohingya Crisis A Timeline

The Rohingya refugee crisis bears several significant challenges, and the Rohingya population have specific needs. The following are the basic needs in th

Rohingya Population By Location

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Saidul Huq is one of those forgotten Rohingyas who has been here since before the exodus of 2017. In fact, his parents had fled to Bangladesh in 1991.

A project titled “Empowering left behind minority communities to effectively participate in the development process of Bangladesh” is being implemented by Bandhu Social Welfare Society, BLAST, Nagorik Uddyog, and WAVE Foundation with the support of Christian Aid and European Union.

The coast of Mirsharai, an upazila in the southeast division of Chattogram, wakes up in the morning to the sounds of under-construction factories, and machines of several newly-built plants on a vast part of the region.

The government is giving priority to develop economic zones on khas or state-owned fallow lands to reduce pressure on the public exchequer in acquiring land from individual owners, according to the Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (Beza).

As of now, development work for the establishment of 28 economic zones is underway. And four government-owned zones -- the BSMSN,

The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) yesterday froze 230 accounts of several mobile financial service providers as the accountholders were allegedly involved in hundi.

The users of mobile financial service provider Nagad today said they failed to get access to their Nagad account through the app.

In conversation with Chris Gibson, international officer and country manager for Bangladesh at the University of Manchester