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COVID-19 and Bangladesh's Rohingya refugees
Cox’s Bazar coronavirus case – the first of many?
With the first COVID-19 case having been detected in the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, aid agencies are warning that without additional resources, there will be a public health catastrophe. By Rodion Ebbighausen
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On Bangladesh's isolated "Rohingya island"
Bangladesh has invested €248 million to make Bhasan Char island liveable for the Rohingya. But the refugees, currently camped in Cox's Bazar district, are reluctant to move to the cyclone-prone island. By Arafatul Islam & Naomi Conrad
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COVID-19 pandemic
Coronavirus takes no account of Ramadan
According to the latest Reuters tally, more than 2.54 million people are now reported to have been infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 177,004 have died. As Muslims prepare for a very different Ramadan this year, here are the latest developments from across the region
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Coronavirus pandemic in the Islamic world
Doubling down on containment efforts
Around the Islamic world, lockdowns and curfews are being extended and religious ceremonies are being cancelled outright in the hope of slowing the spread of COVID-19. Here’s the latest from across the region
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Myanmarʹs Aung San Suu Kyi in Hungary
With friends like Orban...
Myanmarʹs Aung San Suu Kyi and Hungaryʹs Viktor Orban have discussed their mutual fear of Muslims. In doing so, the Burmese leader has again showed she has lost the moral standing she once enjoyed, says Verena Holzl
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Bangladesh's 'death squad' security agency to scan social media
The Bangladeshi government is looking to task a controversial paramilitary force with monitoring social media as the country gears up for a general election in December 2018. Many fear the move will further muzzle free speech. By Arafatul Islam
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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Fatima, the Rohingya, tells her story
Fatima was gang-raped during attacks on Rohingya Muslims as part of Myanmar's ethnic cleansing campaign. Now, she and her family live in a camp in Bangladesh with few prospects, Ines Pohl reports
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Rohingya in Bangladesh: anniversary of the exodus
A year ago, the Rohingya exodus from Myanmar began. Hundreds of thousands fled to neighbouring Bangladesh. Andrea Marshall gives her impressions of the refugee camp Kutupalong in Bangladesh.
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The BJP’s grand plan
Is ethnic cleansing coming to India?
Some four million people in Assam state, nearly all of them Bengali Muslims who have lived in India for more than four decades, are at risk of disenfranchisement after being excluded from the National Registry of Citizens. That may help Modi's Hindu nationalist BJP in the next election, but it won't do anything for peace, writes Shashi Tharoor
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Better safety for Bangladesh's garment industry
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Bangladesh remembers the Rana Plaza disaster
Jobless and hopeless five years on
Five years after the biggest industrial disaster in Bangladeshʹs history, there appears to be no relief in sight for the thousands of survivors who are still suffering from severe physical and psychological trauma. By Arafatul Islam
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Saudi influence in Pakistan
A perilous road
Saudi-supported ultra-conservative worldviews, abetted by successive Pakistani governments, are changing the very nature of Pakistani society. By James M. Dorsey