Bangladesh: US to provide financial assistance for Rohingyas in Bhasan Char

DHAKA, 10 August 2022, (TON): Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen said “the US yesterday agreed to provide financial assistance for the Rohingyas in Bhasan Char, which can help mitigate the funding challenges for those sheltered in the island.”

Bangladesh and UN signed an MoU in October last year, but the US initially refrained from funding amid severe criticism of relocation of Rohingyas from Cox's Bazar to the island in Noakhali.

Currently, around 20,000 Rohingyas are living in the island.

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The government wants to relocate at least 80,000 more people who have sought refuge in Bangladesh from a brutal military crackdown in Myanmar's Rakhine State.

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