Nearly 900 Rohingya refugees dead, missing in shipwrecks in 2025: UN
- 17-Apr-2026
Geneva: Last year was the deadliest on record for Rohingya refugees fleeing by sea, with deaths continuing to soar in 2026, the UN said Friday, after hundreds were lost in a shipwreck earlier this month. “In 2025, nearly 900 Rohingya refugees were reported missing or dead in the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal,” the United […]
Myanmar made Rohingya lives a nightmare, Gambia tells genocide case
- 12-Jan-2026
Gambia on Monday told judges at the United Nations’ top court that Myanmar targeted minority Muslim Rohingya for destruction and made their lives a nightmare in a landmark case accusing Myanmar of genocide. It is the first genocide case the International Court of Justice is hearing in full in more than a decade. The outcome […]
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia to sign agreement on Rohingya Muslims’ legal status
- 19-Nov-2025
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are set to sign an agreement addressing the legal status of Rohingya Muslims, aiming to resolve a long-standing issue, the Ministry of Interior said in a statement. Federal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi visited the Embassy of Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, where he was received by Saudi Ambassador Nawaf bin Saeed […]
Malaysia steps up search for missing Rohingya boats, at least 11 dead
- 10-Nov-2025
LANGKAWI, Malaysia, Nov 10: Malaysian maritime patrols scoured coastal waters in the Andaman Sea on Monday in search of dozens of missing members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority who police believe were on a boat that capsized and sank, killing at least 11 people. Hundreds of Rohingya boarded a vessel towards Malaysia two weeks ago, […]
90 Rohingya left ‘stranded’ on Indonesia beach
- 31-Oct-2024
Human traffickers left dozens of Rohingya refugees, including children, stranded on a shoreline in westernmost Indonesia on Thursday, while six dead bodies were found nearby, local officials said. Members of the persecuted minority risk their lives each year on long and dangerous sea journeys, often crowding into rickety boats in the hopes of reaching Malaysia […]
Thousands of Rohingya flee to Bangladesh from violence in Myanmar, official says
- 04-Sep-2024
Around 8,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh in recent months, escaping escalating violence in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, according to Bangladeshi officials. The violence has intensified as fighting between Myanmar’s ruling junta and the Arakan Army, a powerful ethnic militia drawn from the Buddhist majority, continues to worsen. “We have information that around 8,000 Rohingya crossed […]
Over 70 Rohingya dead or missing after boat accident
- 22-Mar-2024
More than 70 Rohingya are “presumed dead or missing” after a boat they were on capsized off the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province, while 75 have been rescued, the UNHCR refugee agency said on Friday. The UNHCR said in a joint statement with the International Organization for Migration that if the death toll was confirmed, […]
Rohingya face rejection in Indonesia
- 11-Dec-2023
PIDIE: Myanmar’s Rohingya face a wave of hostility and rejection in Indonesia, where regional communities say they are fed up of a spike in the numbers of boats carrying the persecuted ethnic minority to their shores. More than 1,200 Rohingya have landed in Indonesia since November, data from the United Nations’ refugee agency (UNHCR) shows, […]
Rohingya say they won’t return to Myanmar
- 06-May-2023
DHAKA: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh said on Saturday they would not return to Myanmar to “be confined in camps” after making a visit to the country as part of efforts to encourage their voluntary repatriation. Nearly one million Rohingya Muslims are living in camps in the Bangladeshi border district of Cox’s Bazar, most after fleeing […]
More than 180 Rohingya Muslims arrive by boat in Indonesia
- 27-Mar-2023
More than 180 Rohingya Muslims landed in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Monday, officials said, the latest among hundreds who have fled by boat from desperate conditions in Myanmar and in camps in Bangladesh. The United Nations refugee agency has said 2022 may have been one of the deadliest years at sea in almost a decade […]