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Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s ‘hot zone for climate threats’
Cox’s Bazar is a coastal city in Southeastern Bangladesh with a population of around 2.8 million. Since 2017, as many as one million Rohingya refugees have arrived in the district from Myanmar. Most of them now live in the government-run Kutupalong refugee camp, the world’s largest, which is supported by the US, Canada, Japan, EU, Finland, and Sweden. The overly congested and poorly built camp has suffered the Covid pandemic, fires, and natural disasters, such as monsoon rains and cyclones. Since Cox’s Bazar lies on a low-lying coastline, the camp is also extremely climate-vulnerable to rising sea levels and floods. Unlike other Bangladesh communities, there are no shelters for the camp’s residents against natural disasters. The Rohingya refugees may have to become refugees again in Bangladesh if effective solutions and actions are taken.
Read the article and learn about how vulnerable the Rohingya refugees still are.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/5/rohingya-refugees-in-bangladeshs-hot-zone-for-climate-threats
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s ‘hot zone for climate threats’
Cox’s Bazar is a coastal city in Southeastern Bangladesh with a population of around 2.8 million. Since 2017, as many as one million Rohingya refugees have arrived in the district from Myanmar. Most of them now live in the government-run Kutupalong refugee camp, the world’s largest, which is supported by the US, Canada, Japan, EU, Finland, and Sweden. The overly congested and poorly built camp has suffered the Covid pandemic, fires, and natural disasters, such as monsoon rains and cyclones. Since Cox’s Bazar lies on a low-lying coastline, the camp is also extremely climate-vulnerable to rising sea levels and floods. Unlike other Bangladesh communities, there are no shelters for the camp’s residents against natural disasters. The Rohingya refugees may have to become refugees again in Bangladesh if effective solutions and actions are taken.
Read the article and learn about how vulnerable the Rohingya refugees still are.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/5/rohingya-refugees-in-bangladeshs-hot-zone-for-climate-threats
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