Conditions such as wasting in children up as poverty caused by coronavirus restrictions hits mothers' access to nutritious food Bangladesh: A woman in.
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World Food Programme and UNHCR respond as 500 hundred shelters go up in flames
Picking up the pieces: 500 shelters were destroyed in Nayapara camp. Photo: WFP/Sayed Asif Mahmud
At 2:30 a.m. on Thursday (14 January) Nosiba Khatun was woken by the sound of screams and shouts.
Nosiba Khatun sits amongst the ashes of what used to be her home, her only possession now is the food assistance she just received from WFP. Photo: WFP/Mehedi Rahman
Nosiba is one of 22,500 Rohingya refugees who live in the Nayapara Registered Refugee Camp in Cox’s Bazar, which is run by UNHCR. She and her family have been living here since the 1990s when one of the first groups of Rohingya fled violence in Myanmar and sought safety in neighbouring Bangladesh.