Myanmar’s Rakhine state is facing an imminent threat of severe famine, and against this backdrop, Bangladesh has agreed in ...

Bangladesh has agreed to a request by the UN to establish a humanitarian corridor along its border with Myanmar’s Rakhine ...

The interim government has agreed in principle to allow a humanitarian corridor under UN supervision with certain conditions' ...

Bangladesh's first five years were turbulent, with widespread poverty, political unrest, and natural disasters. A devastating famine in 1974, deadly cyclones, and war-torn infrastructure tested the ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday expressed strong reservations regarding the government’s decision ...

“The crisis only deepened in 1974, when Bangladesh faced a devastating famine — one that Francis described as “man-made,” he said. “When Bangladesh exported jute to Cuba, the food supply ...

With the situation, the UN fears famine in Rakhine and asked Bangladesh to provide a corridor to deliver humanitarian aid. Although humanitarian corridors are provided to help ordinary citizens ...

Bangladesh is agreeable in principle to provide logistics support to the transportation of aid through this route. However, there has not been a decision on the provision of aid to Rakhine,” says the ...

WFP is set to reduce its staff by 25% to 30%; agricultural groups ask the U.S. to maintain support for FAO; and Roger Thurow ...