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Indian ship delivers aid for cyclone victims
The humanitarian aid included food, drinking water, clothes and medicine, according to a statement from the Indian embassy.
Arakan Lead Story Natural Disasters News
The humanitarian aid included food, drinking water, clothes and medicine, according to a statement from the Indian embassy.
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According to the ministry, the highest level of destruction was in Maungdaw, northwestern Arakan State.
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Bangladesh’s navy was searching for 81 fishermen still missing on Thursday after more than 63 were rescued from the Bay of Bengal following a devastating cyclone that killed several people and left thousands homeless.
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As Cyclone Mora ripped across the Bangladesh coast a day earlier, scores of Rohingya refugees hunkered down in the ruins of their camps on Wednesday, desperate for relief after a night in the rain.
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Cyclone Mora wreaked havoc on Burma’s west coast in the early hours of this morning, leaving a trail of destruction across Arakan and Chin states.
Bangladesh has evacuated at least 350,000 people as a cyclone lashed coastal areas on Tuesday, officials said, causing havoc in refugee camps set up for Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in neighbouring Burma.
Irrawaddy Division Lead Story News
Four people have been killed and about 60 houses destroyed as storms caused by Cyclone Maarutha wreaked havoc in the Irrawaddy Delta.
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Storm’s path runs between Thandwe and Sittwe. Locals and visitors are warned of high waves, landslides and mudslides, and some 13cm of rainfall by Tuesday.
Lead Story News Refugees Rohingya
Tens of thousands of Muslims who have fled violence in northwestern Burma are living in “extremely poor” conditions in neighboring Bangladesh and need better shelter as the country’s cyclone season approaches, the Red Cross says.
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The cyclone is not expected to hit Burma directly, but will likely cause heavy rainfall in western parts of the country.
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Cyclone Komen is forecast to weaken over the next 12 hours as it moves into northwestern Burma.
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Cyclone Komen is expected to cross Chittagong, Bangladesh, into northwestern Burma on Thursday evening, bringing with it wind speeds of up to 80 miles per hour and torrential rain.
Irrawaddy Division Lead Story Natural Disasters News
A depression over the Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify further into a cyclonic storm, however it is not moving towards the Burmese coastline, the DMH says.
Activists and locals in the Irrawaddy delta town of Labutta held a multi-faith prayer on Friday in commemoration of the Cyclone Nargis tragedy which ravaged the delta on this day in 2008, leaving up to 140,000 dead and some 2 million homeless.
Displaced residents start to pack up to return home after they were evacuated due to Cyclone Mahasen.
Thousands of displaced Rohingya are still stranded in low-lying areas next to the sea, less than a day before a tropical storm is expected to batter northwestern Burma
The Burmese government on Monday morning began to relocate some of the thousands of displaced Rohingya Muslims stuck in camps in western Burma, as a tropical cyclone moves closer to battering the conflict-torn region
Members of Arakan party told they cannot go on fact-finding mission in Myebon town where 10,000 homes were destroyed last year
After-effects of cyclone Giri continue in western Burma as statistics show that 50 percent of the affected area’s rice paddy is not harvestable
Request made by Arakan party to hold off voting in devastated areas is ignored by junta as figures reveal some 170,000 affected
Around 200 people in the cyclone-hit Arakan state have fallen ill as reports claim that aid to the worst-hit areas is slow to arrive
Around 70,000 remain homeless and 175,000 affected as Washington says it is not sure whether offers of aid have been accepted by junta
Around 30 dead or missing in Arakan state as locals complain that international and domestic relief supplies have been slow to arrive
Thousands left homeless in Arakan state with landfall winds thought to be stronger than cyclone Nargis in May 2008
Orphans of Burma’s Cyclone, broadcasted on Channel 4’s Dispatches documentary strand last year, receives prestigious One World Media Award
Two-year anniversary of Burma’s worst recorded natural disaster marked with calls by the UN for a massive increase in funding to victims
Southeast Asia bloc acknowledges that gaps still exist in Nargis aid delivery but will hand control of operations to the Burmese junta in July
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