Bangladesh

This photograph taken on October 4, 2022 shows a residential neighbourhood during a power blackout in Dhaka. At least 130 million people in Bangladesh were left without power on October 4 after a grid failure caused widespread blackouts, the government's power utility company said. Photo: Munir uz zaman / AFP
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05 October 2022
Power blackouts hit 130 million people in Bangladesh
Members of the Armed Police Battalion (APBN) stand guard near the office of slain community Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah, who was shoot dead by gunmen last month, at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on October 6, 2021. Munir uz zaman / AFP
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11 October 2021
Bangladesh arrests 16 Rohingya in anti-militant...
Bangladesh police arrested at least 16 Rohingya refugees in a series of raids on camps in...
Mohib Ullah -- a high-profile figurehead for the more than 800,000-strong Muslim minority who fled the Myanmar military in a mass exodus -- was killed by gunmen in one of the spawling camps in southeast Bangladesh (AFP/Munir UZ ZAMAN)
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04 October 2021
Five arrested over killing of Rohingya leader in...
Five Rohingya men have been arrested over the killing of a prominent community leader in...
Photo: Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh chief Junaid Babunagari
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21 August 2021
Bangladesh's firebrand Islamist leader dies
Tens of thousands of people on Thursday attended the funeral of the firebrand leader of...
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18 June 2021
Diarrhoea kills four on Bangladesh Rohingya island
Bangladesh officials said Thursday they have contained a diarrhoea outbreak which has...
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18 June 2021
Diarrhoea kills four on Bangladesh Rohingya island
Bangladesh officials said Thursday they have contained a diarrhoea outbreak which has...
Bhashan Char in the Bay of Bengal. Photo: AFP
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17 February 2021
More refugees moved to remote Bangladesh island
Another 3,000 Rohingya refugees have been relocated by Bangladesh to a remote silt island...
Passengers cross the Buriganga River in ferry boat during the winter on a foggy day in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photo: EPA
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25 January 2021
Bangladesh to buy 100,000 tonnes of rice from...
Bangladesh will buy 100,000 tonnes of rice from Myanmar to overcome a shortage of the...
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina (R) flashes the victory symbol after casting her vote, as her daughter Saima Wazed Hossain (L) and her sister Sheikh Rehana (C) look on at a polling station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 30 December 2018. Photo: EPA
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01 January 2019
Bangladesh PM says ʻconscience is clear’ as...
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday rejected calls for a new vote after...
Rohingya refugees walk to attend a ceremony organised to remember the first anniversary of a military crackdown that prompted a massive exodus of people from Myanmar to Bangladesh, at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on August 25, 2018. Photo: Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP
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19 September 2018
Bangladesh to move refugees to island from next...
Bangladesh will next month start moving 100,000 Rohingya refugees to a remote island,...

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