Dhaka, July 13 -- Eight years on from the mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, the crisis remains unresolved - and is now intensifying.
Our newspaper on Saturday reported that with nearly 150,000 new arrivals in Bangladesh over the past 18 months, the total Rohingya refugee population has surged past 1.35 million.
This protracted humanitarian disaster, centred in the overcrowded camps of Cox's Bazar, demands urgent global attention.
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has sounded the alarm: critical aid operations in Bangladesh are on the verge of collapse due to a severe funding shortfall.
With just months remaining before key services begin shutting down, the stakes could not be higher.
Health services are at risk of d...