UN appealed for $951 million for 900,000 Rohingya refugees

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Sun, Mar 18, 2018, 12:37 AM

UN appealed for $951 million for 900,000 Rohingya refugees

Geneva, March 18: The UN has appealed for $951 million to meet the needs of nearly 900,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

"We are talking about truly critical needs here both on the part of the Bangladeshi communities who have so generously opened their doors and of a stateless and refugee population that even prior to this crisis was among the world's most marginalised and at risk," UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said in Geneva.

Grandi's remarks came on Friday while he was launching the 2018 Joint Response Plan for the Rohingya humanitarian crisis.

Over the months since the most recent Rohingya influx began, it has become the world's fastest growing refugee crisis with tens of thousands fleeing by land and sea daily from Myanmar's northern Rakhine state at the peak of the emergency.