United Nations, Nov 11 : The United Nations migration agency and its partners are rushing to build roads in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar to improve humanitarian access to hilly terrain, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees have settled in makeshift camps.
The sites where the Rohingyas have settled are desperately overcrowded and located on inhospitable terrain with insufficient drainage and little or no road access, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Friday.
The few roads that exist are impossibly congested, making it extremely difficult to reach refugees with the support and services they need.
Since 25 August, an estimated 613,000 Rohingya refugees have arrived in Cox’s Bazar, fleeing violence in Myanmar.
The total refugee population in the area is now over 826,000.
(UNI)
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