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Malaysia-bound and fleeing Bangladesh, Rohingya Muslim refugees are feared lost at sea CNN 1 hr ago By Priyali Sur and Rebecca Wright, CNN © Courtesy Gule Jaane Noor Kayas wanted more from life than was possible in a crowded refugee camp in Bangladesh. Noor Kayas fled the refugee camp without telling anyone at home. At sea the next morning, the teenager used a satellite phone to call her mother, Gule Jaan, 43, to say she was heading for Malaysia on a small wooden boat, packed with 87 Rohingya refugees, including 65 women and girls. © Courtesy Gule Jaane Noor asked her ...

Noor Kayas fled the refugee camp without telling anyone at home. At sea the next morning, the teenager used a satellite phone to call her mother, Gule Jaan, 43, to say she was heading for Malaysia on a small wooden boat, packed with 87 Rohingya refugees, including 65 women and girls. Some were fleeing what their families say is the increased risk of sexual assault and rape during the pandemic in the sprawling refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, in Bangladesh, home to more than 1 million displaced people. The 16-year-old asked her mother to pay 40,000 taka ($470) to the trafficker for her passage ...

A delegation from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation calls itself satisfied with the infrastructure it saw on Bhashan Char, though UN human rights rapporteur Yanghee Lee says she is not yet sure the island is 'truly habitable.'

Indian coast guard finds 81 Rohingyas adrift at sea Asks Bangladesh to take them Reuters, New Delhi Reuters, New Delhi India's coast guard found 81 survivors and eight dead on a boat crammed with Muslim Rohingya refugees adrift in the Andaman Sea, and were repairing the vessel so that it can return safely to Bangladesh, Indian officials said yesterday. The Indian government was in discussions with Bangladesh to facilitate the safe return of the vessel, which was found drifting in international waters having left southern Bangladesh about two weeks a...

UNHCR informed that the Indian coast guard had answered its plea to look for a boat carrying Rohingya refugees believed to be adrift in the Andaman Sea.