a huge fire has ripped through one of the rohingya refugee camps in cox s bazar in south east bangladesh. the charity action aid said their initial assessment was that more than 2000 shelters had been gutted, leaving around 12,000 people homeless. hundreds of thousands of rohingya refugees, who escaped violence in neighbouring myanmar, have been living in crammed camps near the border in bangladesh. earlier i spoke to our south asia correspondent anbarasan ethirajan who started off my telling me where the fire took place and gave me an update on what we know so far.. it is a very sprawling camp where tens of thousands of people live in cramped conditions. and these huts are made up of bamboo and sometimes by polythene sheets or even tin roofs and they are packed. there are tens of thousands of people living there. in the evenings, somehow the fire starts by accident. but officials say they managed to bring it under control. but thousands of people are now affected. they are
on what we know so far. it is a very sprawling camp where tens of thousands of people live in cramped conditions. and these huts are made up of bamboo and sometimes by polythene sheets or even tin roofs and they are packed. there are tens of thousands of people living there. in the evenings, somehow the fire starts by accident. but officials say they managed to bring it under control. but thousands of people are now affected. they are now homeless, with the women and children as the aid worker was saying. it is a very terrible condition because they will be staying outside in the cold. but the aid agencies say they are providing all of the help. it is also a reminder of all the situation of rohingya refugees where nearly a million of them escaped violence from neighbouring myanmar. these camps are situated very close to the border. many people feel, the rohingya community feel, they have been forgotten by the world communuity. earlier i spoke to safwan chowdhury from the ba
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The DEVAC Infrastructure Conference and Expo, taking place on the May 17 -18, 2023 at the Sandton-based Hilton Hotel, in Johannesburg, Gauteng, will provide a platform for industry experts from the African infrastructure value chain to engage on project updates, investment opportunities, partnerships, the latest technology, innovation and solutions, as well as the adequate, smart, resilient, and sustainable infrastructure required for Africa. The conference and expo aims to spark conversation in the following sectors: energy, road and rail transportation, construction and building, water infrastructure, ports and bridges, smart cities, financing, and investment, as well as ICT and telecommunications. According to the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), investors are ready and eager to accelerate infrastructure development with the necessary funding; however, roughly 80% of projects fail during the feasibility and business planning phase.
sets out a legal framework and fills in gaps that existed and when it comes to actually implementing it i think the next eight is that there will be a conference of party but also a specific committees and committees based on looking at monitoring compliance and also financial resources and etc. so there will be variables including a scientific and technical body so basically will be set up certain mechanisms in order to be able to operationalise it and ensure that that there is that enforcement and compliance in place. and it s a real challenge in the high seas because it is fast and very remote. so i think that is really achy because now we have this agreement but in orderfor it to now we have this agreement but in order for it to be effective it needs to ensure that it has compliance management and sufficient resources to do that. i compliance management and sufficient resources to do that. resources to do that. i wasn t askin: resources to do that. i wasn t asking about resource