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 ...

BNP and several other parties have voiced concerns over the government reportedly agreeing in principle to a UN proposal for establishing a humanitarian corridor into Myanmar's war-torn Rakhine State.

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“We want to make it categorically clear that the government has not discussed the so-called humanitarian corridor with the UN or any other entity,” he told the press, responding to a question over ...

On Monday, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) secretary general Mira Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said at a public rally that the government should have consulted with all political parties before taking ...

Bangladesh's Foreign Affairs Adviser, Md Touhid Hossain, announced on Sunday that the interim government had taken a policy decision to provide humanitarian passage for Myanmar's Rakhine State.

Following ongoing conflict between Myanmar’s military junta and rebel groups, the Arakan Army has seized full control of Rakhine State adjacent to Bangladesh, in December last year, with the ...

Bangladesh's interim government said on April 29 it was open to a UN aid corridor through its territory to reach starving civilians in Myanmar's Rakhine state. But the proposal, raised by United ...

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s BNP has expressed “grave concern” over the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government’s announcement that Dhaka had agreed in-principle to open a ...

Bangladesh has agreed to a request by the UN to establish a humanitarian corridor along its border with Myanmar’s Rakhine state for citizens of the war-torn country, officials said Sunday.