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News Articles: Rohingya

Dr. Firdausi Qadri has been engaged in a decades-long battle against a microbial foe — the bacterium that causes cholera.

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  • Global Health

Where this doctor finds hope amid her country's record cholera outbreak

Treating cholera has been a passion for Bangladeshi scientist Firdausi Qadri. She reflects on her career and inspirations, cholera's scourge, as well as successes in combating the disease.

March 02, 2023
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Ethnic Rohingya women and children sit on the floor upon arrival at a temporary shelter after their boat landed in Pidie, Aceh province, Indonesia, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. A second group in two days of weak and exhausted Rohingya Muslims landed on a beach in Indonesia's northernmost province of Aceh on Monday after weeks at sea, officials said.

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  • Asia

U.N. warns that more Rohingya refugees are likely to wash ashore in Indonesia

A United Nations agency is seeking information about the voyage of over 100 Rohingya Muslim refugees who landed on an Indonesian beach this week, and warned Tuesday that there will likely be more.

December 27, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A scene from <em>Midwives</em>: A baby whose face is adorned with thanaka — a kind of sunscreen made from wood bark.

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  • Arts & Life

Sundance prize goes to 'Midwives' — about a Buddhist midwife and her Muslim apprentice

The documentary follows a Buddhist and a Muslim — who don't always get along — as they provide health care to Muslim women and children despite growing political and religious tensions in Myanmar.

January 28, 2022
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  • Malaka Gharib
In this Dec. 29, 2020, file photo, Rohingya refugees wait on naval ships to be transported to an isolated island in the Bay of Bengal, in Chittagong, Bangladesh.

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  • World

U.N. and Bangladesh sign deal to aid Rohingya relocated to island in Bay of Bengal

The agreement came as a paradigm shift after the U.N. and humanitarian groups criticized the relocation, saying the island is regularly submerged by monsoon rains and was not fit for habitation.

October 11, 2021
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  • The Associated Press
A landscape view seen in the Balukhali camp in Cox's Bazar, taken two years ago. A massive fire has swept through the camp, destroying hundreds of dwellings.

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  • Asia

Fire Sweeps Through Rohingya Refugee Camp In Southern Bangladesh

The fire at a camp in Cox's Bazar spread rapidly, engulfing tents and poorly constructed homes and buildings, according to witnesses.

March 22, 2021
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  • Scott Neuman
Rohingya refugees walk at the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Feb. 2. Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in camps in Bangladesh are condemning the military coup in their homeland and saying it makes them more fearful to return. A brutal counterinsurgency operation by Myanmar's military in 2017 drove more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to neighboring Bangladesh.

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  • World

What Myanmar's Coup Means For The Rohingya

"The coup is obviously good for no one," says a human rights activist. "But for the Rohingya, the risk is heightened. This is the military regime responsible for the atrocities over many, many years."

February 11, 2021
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  • Ashley Westerman
Supporters gather in front of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy headquarters on Sunday, in Yangon, Myanmar.

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  • World

Myanmar Election: Suu Kyi's Party Poised For Second Term

Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy appear set to remain in power after Sunday's general election, which is largely seen as a referendum on Suu Kyi's first term.

November 12, 2020
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  • Ashley Westerman
Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's de facto leader, casts an early ballot for the Nov. 8 general election in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Oct. 29.

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  • World

Suu Kyi's Party Expected To Win Myanmar Election Amid Minorities' Disenfranchisement

Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won in a 2015 landslide and is expected to win again. But with voting denied or canceled in some areas, more than a million voters are disenfranchised.

November 07, 2020
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  • Michael Sullivan

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