Bangladesh Stories

In world's largest refugee camps, Rohingya mobilise to fight in Myanmar
Reuters  |  Nov 25, 2024

The Rohingya, a mainly Muslim group that is the world's largest stateless population, started fleeing in droves to Bangladesh in 2016 to escape what t...

Wounded and grieving, Rohingya flee deadly attacks in Myanmar
Mercy Asamba  |  Aug 16, 2024

The influx of refugees, who will have to stay with relatives, stretching resources, will make food supplies scarce, said the representative of a panel...

Former Bangladesh PM Hasina demands probe into July 'killings and vandalism'
Diana Mbugua  |  Aug 13, 2024

Around 300 people died in the demonstrations that began as protests against employment quotas but spiralled into a movement seeking Hasina's overthrow...

Bangladesh chief justice, central bank chief quit amid protests
Mercy Asamba  |  Aug 10, 2024

Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan resigned, the law ministry's adviser Asif Nazrul said in a Facebook video post, after students warned him of "dire conseq...

Redefining protests in Kenya: How accountability and stability can coexist
Hanifa Adan  |  Aug 10, 2024

In the context of systemic corruption, labelling Kenya’s protests as ‘anarchy’ seems both misleading and inadequate

Bangladesh army refused to suppress protest, sealing Hasina's fate
Reuters  |  Aug 07, 2024

Her iron-fisted grasp on power has been challenged since summer by protests triggered by a court ruling to reserve government jobs - heavily coveted a...

Bangladesh Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus named chief adviser of interim government
Reuters  |  Aug 07, 2024

Muhammad Yunus was appointed to the post by Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin after he held meetings with student leaders and chiefs of the th...

Bangladesh President dissolves parliament, ending ex-PM Sheikh Hasina's era
Reuters  |  Aug 06, 2024

The decision was taken following meetings with the heads of defence forces, leaders of political parties, student leaders and some civil society repre...

What's behind Bangladesh's protest against ex-PM Sheikh Hasina?
Reuters  |  Aug 06, 2024

Bangladesh's army chief will meet student protest leaders on Tuesday as the country awaits the formation of a new government a day after PM Hasina res...

Bangladesh awaits interim government, army chief to meet protesters
Reuters  |  Aug 06, 2024

Student leaders, who spearheaded a movement against job quotas that turned into a call for Hasina to resign, said that they want a new interim governm...

Bangladesh: UN watching crisis ‘very closely’ as PM resigns and flees the country
UN News  |  Aug 05, 2024

The United Nations is following the situation in Bangladesh very closely after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country on Monday.

Bangladesh army takes over government as Premier Sheikh Hasina resigns over protests
Abdirahman Khalif  |  Aug 05, 2024

Sheikh Hasina, who has served consecutively since January 2009, has now been ousted.

Seventeen dead, over 100 injured in Bangladesh train crash
AFP  |  Oct 23, 2023

The crash in the eastern city of Bhairab saw a freight train smash into a passenger train travelling in the opposite direction, derailing two passenge...

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