Bangladesh: The Rohingya crisis is not over. As needs grow, support shrinks.
June 22, 2026Co-authored by Elko Brummelman, Country Representative of MSF in Bangladesh & Muhammad Hubaib, camp-based team member and a Rohingya refugeeThis World Refugee Day marks nearly nine years since Bangladesh opened its borders in a landmark act of humanity, saving hundreds of thousands...
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Bangladesh: Rohingya patient testimonies reveal deepening crisis under new ration cuts
June 15, 2026Since the massive influx of 2017, nearly one million Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar have remained entirely dependent on humanitarian aid. Prohibited from formal employment, food assistance is their only lifeline. In April 2026, World Food Programme (WFP) replaced the uniform food voucher system for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh with...
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Malaysia: The Only Difference Between Us and Them is Luck
April 22, 2026On April 9, a Malaysia-bound trawler carrying an estimated 250-280 passengers – men, women and children who were Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi nationals – sank in the Andaman Sea due to harsh winds and overcrowding. Only nine were rescued, found...
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Myanmar: Deadly airstrike on a hospital in Mrauk-U, Rakhine State
December 11, 202511.12.2025, Amsterdam- Today, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) learned of the bombing and destruction of the Mrauk-U general hospital in Rakhine State, Myanmar. Reportedly, the airstrike - which occurred around 9 p.m. on 10 December - resulted in the death of...
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Malaysia: Witnessing the Hidden Scars of Rohingya Refugee Women and Girls
December 11, 2025Imagine a child desperately searching for safety amid unrelenting trauma from sexual- and gender-based violence (SGBV). In the last 10 months, at our clinic in Penang, among 37 female survivors of SGBV aged 10 to 17, eight young girls have...
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The Illusion of Choice: Rohingya Voices Echo from the Camps ahead of UN Conference
September 29, 202529 September, Tuesday, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: Eight years after hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled a campaign of extreme targeted violence in Myanmar, a new report from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) shows a population caught in a protracted...
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Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: The long wait for medical care
September 4, 2025Sometimes I sell my extra rations to get some money and buy medicines from outside [the camps]. MSF’s services are good but waiting long hours makes me restless; it takes the whole day. Nur Begum Jamtoli clinic in the Rohingya...
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Bangladesh: Trapped and forgotten, where can Rohingya people seek safety?
August 22, 2024Click here to read this article in Bangla. As Rohingya become increasingly trapped by raging conflict in Myanmar's Rakhine state, those who cannot pay their way across the border into Bangladesh are being left without protection or assistance. “We heard explosions, gunfire...
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Bangladesh: MSF sees severe spike in arrivals of war-wounded Rohingya from Myanmar
August 10, 2024Escalating numbers of Rohingya people with violence-related injuries have crossed the border into Bangladesh over the past week, says international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), indicating the worsening humanitarian crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.In the four days...
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Myanmar: MSF suspends medical activities in northern Rakhine state
June 28, 2024The extreme escalation of conflict, indiscriminate violence, and severe restrictions on humanitarian access in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, have forced Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend medical humanitarian activities in the townships of Rathedaung, Buthidaung and Maungdaw. MSF ran 14 mobile...
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Rohingya: Two crows, a banyan tree, and leaving a trace for the future
August 23, 2023In the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is partnering with a Rohingya community to bear witness to the challenges, experiences and survival of Rohingya people.https://youtu.be/iupHN_tx4o8Laid out on a wooden panel in...
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Bangladesh: MSF calls for an urgent and comprehensive response to the scabies outbreak in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps
July 13, 2023Cox’s Bazar, 12 July, Wednesday - An outbreak of scabies, the skin disease, is affecting hundreds of thousands of Rohingya living in refugee camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district, demanding an urgent response, says international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors...
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