UN, Caritas Bangladesh aid Rohingya refugees after deadly fire
United Nations agencies and Caritas Bangladesh have swung into action to help Rohingya refugees who lost their homes and everything they owned in a 14 January fire in their camp in Nayapara.
By Vatican News staff writer
A massive fire that broke out early Thursday morning in a refugee camp for Rohingya in south-east Bangladesh, has gutted more than 500 homes and 150 shops, leaving over 3,500 refugees homeless.
No deaths were reported in the fire in the Nayapara refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, said an official from the state-run Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission (RRRC). Several people were injured before firefighters, police and soldiers put down the fire.
Caritas warns of humanitarian crisis for migrants in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Hundreds of migrants and refugees are at serious risk and the mercy of worsening weather conditions in inadequate shelters, amid the lack of political consensus in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
By Vatican News staff writer
The Italian branch of Caritas is warning of a looming humanitarian catastrophe for migrants and refugees stranded without worthy housing conditions in freezing weather in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Caritas Italiana says the already precarious situation of the migrants and refugees, whose camp burnt down on 23 December, could further worsen due to frigid winter weather conditions and continuous transfers from one camp to another.