Lawyers from Gambia have urged the United Nations’ top court to reject Myanmar’s legal attempt to end a case of genocide by the Southeast Asian country against Rohingya Muslims, after the Buddhist nation tried to get the case dismissed.

The UN believes the government of Myanmar might have committed ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity in its crackdown.

“As it is now in the middle of the pandemic, all refugees will undergo medical screening,” said Indonesia’s head of the national task force on refugees.

Bangladesh starts to send more Rohingya Muslim refugees to a controversial facility on a remote island.

This edition of the program is about the relentless plight of the Rohingya Muslims displaced from their home country of Myanmar. Their woes are even continuing in the refugee camps in Bangladesh and nobody is taking their hardships seriously.

The UN humanitarian chief calls on Myanmar’s military rulers to provide unimpeded access to the more than three million people in need of life-saving humanitarian assistance.

Far away from their homes, the battle for survival continues for thousands of Rohingya refugees living across India.

The Afghan city of Mazar Sharif has fallen to the Taliban, marking the complete loss of Afghanistan’s north to the militant group.

Torrential monsoon rains ruin the sprawling camps of Rohingya Muslim refugees in southern Bangladesh, turning settlements into fast-flowing rivers overnight and leaving thousands of refugees without a shelter.

Turmoil has gripped Myanmar since de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) were ousted on February 1.