Left in limbo: Kachin IDPs face monsoon season dilemma
“Unless both sides stop fighting and allow these people to go home, [the Kachin IDPs] are facing a dire situation.”
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Rohingya refugees fear upcoming monsoon season
Bangladesh is lashed by typhoons, and the Rohingya camps are clustered in a part of the country that records the highest rainfall.
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Arakan enduring another deadly monsoon season
Another four people died in Taunggup on Saturday when they were swept away by the current as they attempted to walk across a flooded field.
BRIEF – Rangoon residents can’t wait for monsoon season
A lack of rain ahead of the monsoon season is causing ponds and lakes around Rangoon to dry up, resulting in water shortages for many of the city’s six million[…]
Monsoon season threatens Nargis victims
Mar 31, 2009 (DVB), Appeals have gone out to the international community for a substantial increase in funds and support for victims of cyclone Nargis, four weeks before the onset[…]
Lead Story News Refugees Rohingya
Monsoons could bring ‘enormous deaths’ for Rohingya refugees: advisers
Burma’s panel of international advisers on Rohingya issues says the coming monsoon season could bring “enormous deaths” as refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh are not built to withstand the storms.
UN says 100,000 Rohingya in grave danger from monsoon rains
Over 100,000 Rohingya refugees huddled in squalid, muddy camps in Bangladesh will be in grave danger from landslides when the mid-year monsoon season begins, a UN humanitarian report says.
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Beasts of burden – Animals suffer in monsoon too
Four Paws International and Mingalar Myanmar say they have received an unwavering number of requests in the past four months for rescue assistance, emergency food provisions, and veterinary treatment.
Karenni Lead Story Natural resources News
Mawchi miners warned of monsoon mudslides
The warnings come after mining operations were suspended last October for several months following a mudslide that killed at least 28 people.
Environment Lead Story News Rangoon
Floods hit Burma as monsoon rolls in
From Sandoway on the western coast to Tavoy in the south, several towns and cities areas are pelted by torrents of rain, resulting in floods.
BRIEF – Shwe Mann urges land return before monsoon
House speaker of the Burmese parliament, Shwe Mann, urged all government authorities to implement the return of confiscated lands back to villagers before monsoon season so that farmers can prepare[…]
Monsoon floods continue to wreak havoc in Burma
One person drowned and more than 400 were evacuated to safety after severe flooding in Naypyidaw, while in Pegu about 150 villages were inundated when the Irrawaddy River burst its banks.
Monsoon rains inundate eastern Karen state
Thousands of residents in Burma’s Karen state have been relocated to shelters as fresh flooding continues to inundate the country’s eastern borderlands
As monsoon hits, relief workers struggle to provide IDPs with shelter, aid
Villagers taking refuge in displacement camps in war-torn Kachin and Shan states are in desperate need of reliable shelter as the monsoon season commences in northern Burma
UN appeals for more Nargis aid as monsoon looms
Apr 6, 2009 (DVB), The United Nations has urged the international community to focus increased aid to Burma on cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta as monsoon season threatens the delicate recovery process[…]
Burmese minister says conditions in Rohingya refugee camps ‘very poor’
A Burmese minister expressed concerns on Thursday about “very poor conditions” in Rohingya refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh, and said repatriation of the Muslim minority should start as soon as possible due to the coming monsoon season.
flora and fauna Lead Story News Pegu Division
Lost elephant shot with tranquiliser
Locals say it is common for wild elephants to roam around villages on the edge of the Pegu range during the harvest in monsoon season.
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Hiding from traffickers in ‘prison-like’ tents, Rohingya girls dream of school
Young Rohingya women and girls are trapped inside refugee camps in Cox’s Bazaar due to fears they’ll be targeted by human traffickers.
Floods hit Mon State
More than 5800 people have been evacuated in Mon State following heavy rainfall and flooding yesterday.
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Jade mine landslide kills 1, injures others
A villager in Hpakant told DVB the death toll has risen to two as one of the patients at the hospital died.
500 flee homes in Namtu as Shan, Ta’ang armies clash
Most travelled by foot, carrying what possessions they could.
After Rohingya rape accusations, UN warns of imminent births
Senior UN officials have warned about the prospect of a flood of babies being born in the coming weeks and months in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps that could be the result of rape.
Rohingya crisis: Suu Kyi meets with UN envoys
She told the Security Council members ‘please bring to our notice any infringement of these laws and we will do whatever is necessary to take the action’.
International Relations Lead Story News Rakhine
UN Security Council puts spotlight on Rohingya refugee crisis
UN Security Council envoys began a four-day visit to Bangladesh and Burma on Saturday to see firsthand the aftermath of a Burmese military crackdown that Britain, the United States and others have denounced as ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims.
International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya
More pressure needed on Burma to take back refugees, says Bangladeshi PM
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Tuesday more international pressure was needed on Burma to take back Rohingya refugees, rejecting a claim by the Burmese government that it had repatriated a family of five.
International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya
Aid agencies fear for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s island relocation plan
Bangladesh has failed to persuade aid agencies to sign up to its plan to move 100,000 Rohingya refugees to a remote island in June, internal documents show, amid fears they could be trapped there at the mercy of cyclones, floods and human traffickers.
Lead Story News Refugees Rohingya
Burmese minister to visit Rohingya camps as Bangladesh seeks refugees’ return
A Burmese government minister will visit Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh on Wednesday, officials said, a rare trip that Dhaka hopes will help speed the return home of hundreds of thousands of the neighbouring nation’s Muslim minority.
Lead Story Natural Disasters News
Natural disasters costing Burma 3% of GDP
Burma’s government says past three years that the number of climate-induced disasters such as floods and cyclones has increased over the past three years.
‘Alarming’ surge in Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh: UNHCR
An alarming and unprecedented influx of 270,000 Rohingya have sought refuge in Bangladesh over the past two weeks from violence in Burma, the UN refugee agency said on Friday, a dramatic jump in the total as new pockets of people are found.
Chin climate change Environment Farmers Lead Story News
The silent climate burn in Chin State
Chin State has suffered particularly erratic rainfall, landslides and floods. But new adaptation programs are aiming to prepare farming communities for future changes in the climate and improve food security.
