Japan to provide $2m for Rohingya refugees

Japan will provide 2 million US dollars as emergency aid to the Rohingya refugees who recently entered Bangladesh in the face of persecution in their home state of Northern Rakhine in Myanmar.

More than 70,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh since the violence erupted in Rakhine on October 9, 2016.

This emergency grant is to provide the newly arrived refugees with humanitarian assistance such as shelter, non-food items, health services, water and sanitation, and protection through the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Children's Fund and the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, a press release of Japan Embassy said yesterday.