Since 2017, one million Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh from the conflict-ridden Rakhine state in Myanmar. Today, Bangladesh hosts more than 1.3 million Rohingyas in camps at Cox's Bazar.

However, a new tack involved advocating a “humanitarian corridor” to the Rakhine State, citing ostensible “famine-like conditions” and “starvation” in the non-Rohingya region ...

Despite the humanitarian crisis caused by the recent earthquake, clashes continue, particularly in Kyaukphyu—at the heart of Rakhine State and a strategically important area for the junta’s ...

In the last week of April, Bangladesh agreed in principle to a United Nations proposal to establish a humanitarian channel to Rakhine State in neighboring Myanmar, aiming to provide aid to thousands ...

The provision of a humanitarian corridor for Rakhine State has long been a topic of heated discussion in Bangladesh. Recently, the United Nations renewed its call for such a corridor, warning that ...

The news portal falsely claimed that Bangladesh and the US were preparing for a proxy war in the Rakhine state of Myanmar, he added. For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel.

The United Nations has said it would require the approval of both Bangladesh and Myanmar to facilitate humanitarian aid into Rakhine if the global body were to be involved in creating a channel ...

Myanmar’s Rakhine state is facing an imminent threat of severe famine, and against this backdrop, Bangladesh has agreed in principle to provide logistics support to send UN aid to Rakhine through a ...

Bangladesh would be willing to provide logistic support should there be a UN-led humanitarian support to the state of Rakhine, Khalilur Rahman, the government's adviser on Rohingya issues ...

Clarifying his stance, the press secretary in a social media post on Tuesday said: “Our position is that should there be a UN-led humanitarian support to the state of Rakhine, Bangladesh would ...

Bangladesh has been taking in fellow Muslims from Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state since a bloody 2017 army crackdown forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to flee their homeland. Myanmar's ...

The Arakan Army (AA), the ethnic armed organization for the Arakan (Rakhine) people, has now seized control of almost all of Myanmar’s Rakhine State, with the notable exceptions of the capital of ...