Report from European Commission Humanitarian Aid department

Sittwe, January 2013: Standing amongst heaps of woven bamboo panels and corrugated iron sheets, Abdul oversees more than 20 fellow Rohingya workers building over a dozen barrack-type shelters, each to house ten families displaced by the recent inter-communal fighting. “I used to work for a European NGO”, Abdul explains. ”So I am using my skills to work with contractors who have been tasked to build these shelters. This way my people have at least a roof over their heads”.

1,600 families have found shelter in this camp called “Say Tha Mar Gyi”, located about 8 km north-west of Sittwe, the Rakhine State capital. Here the construction of the barrack-type temporary shelters is just one of the activities underway. Latrines have been constructed, water bore-holes installed. Others, such as Abdul and his four children have found shelter with host families in Rohingya villages nearby, which survived the devastating communal violence between Rakhine and Rohingya communities.

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The sectarian violence that engulfed Myanmar’s western Rakhine state last year, killing at least 160 people and displacing more than 110,000, has created a humanitarian emergency that is endangering many more people, a leading aid agency has warned.

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Saudi Gazette report

MAKKAH — The task force drawn from various governmental departments to address the problems of the Burmawi community in Makkah and gather information about their number and conditions, has completed its work, according to a local daily.

The task force, which consists of 20 field teams, will also gather information about the Burmawi community in Taif and Jeddah to speed up the process of legalizing their residential status in the Kingdom.

Once the committee’s work has been completed, all Burmawis will be issued residency permits.

Saudi Gazette report

MAKKAH — The task force drawn from various governmental departments to address the problems of the Burmawi community in Makkah and gather information about their number and conditions, has completed its work, according to a local daily.

The task force, which consists of 20 field teams, will also gather information about the Burmawi community in Taif and Jeddah to speed up the process of legalizing their residential status in the Kingdom.