The Asian Development Bank yesterday approved a $41.4 million grant to help improve infrastructure and manage the basic needs of Rohingyas sheltered in Bangladesh.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (May 23, 2022) reiterated her call to the international community to do much more to ensure safe, sustainable and dignified return of over one million forcibly displaced Rohingyas from Bangladesh.

The illegal entry of Rohingyas into Bangladesh from India over the past three weeks has triggered a fresh concern as the new inflow will create an additional burden for the country already hosting one million of the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals.

Eight Rohingya refugees who were trying to flee from Bhasan Char in Hatiya upazila of Noakhali, were detained from Subarnachar upazila last night.

Bangladesh and UN agencies yesterday presented their Joint Response Plan 2022, seeking to raise $881 million in humanitarian assistance for the Rohingyas and the Bangladeshi host communities.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion rescued fifty-eight people off Teknaf coast in Cox's Bazar while they were being trafficked to Malaysia by a trawler through the Bay of Bengal.

Turkey has committed contribution of $200,000 to the fund for the trial of Rohingya genocide case filed with International Court of Justice by the Gambia.

Bangladesh has welcomed the US announcement acknowledging Rohingya genocide, noting that it might expedite efforts on accountability and repatriation fronts.

Police have detained 135 Rohingya men, women and children, who fled from various refugee camps of Ukhiya in Cox’s Bazar, from Sonadia Island of Maheshkhali.

The Biden administration yesterday determined that violence committed against Rohingyas by Myanmar military amounts to genocide and crimes against humanity -- a decision that analysts say should strengthen efforts to hold the Myanmar junta accountable.

The Biden administration has formally determined that violence committed against the Rohingya minority by Myanmar's military amounts to genocide and crimes against humanity, US officials told Reuters, a move that advocates say should bolster efforts to hold the junta that now runs Myanmar accountable.

A boat carrying more than one hundred Rohingya refugees, including dozens of children, landed on the coast of Indonesia’s westernmost province Aceh early yesterday, police said.

The world should not allow the Rohingya issue to be the cause of instability in the region, said Ito Naoki, the Japanese ambassador to Bangladesh, yesterday.

Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim AA Khan QC has laid emphasis on a collective responsibility which can actually help them move beyond talking about justice to delivering it for the Rohingyas.

The International Court of Justice will begin a fresh round of hearings into the Rohingya genocide case amid renewed hope for justice today, a little over two years after The Gambia filed the case with the court.

Despite the government’s assertions to the contrary, the recent arrest of an Arsa chief’s brother from a Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar strongly hints atthe insurgent group’s presence inside the refugee camps, residents and experts said.

Bangladesh has expressed dismay over Myanmar’s slow pace verification of the Rohingya and offered the later all cooperation under three bilateral instruments to expeditiously complete the verification process.

Around 6,000 Rohingyas should be evacuated from two camps in Cox’s Bazar to avert casualties as they are living on hilly slopes that are vulnerable to landslides, said a government report.

Bangladesh yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding with Turkey on counter-terrorism, security cooperation and prevention of drug trafficking.

Myanmar has proposed to form a new joint committee with Bangladesh to settle the Rohingya verification issues, nearly three years after the two countries held a bilateral meeting on Rohingya repatriation.