JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR The new mataf bridge around the Holy Kaaba opens for pilgrims this week. Only disabled and elderly pilgrims will be allowed to use the circular bridge that can hold 7,000 wheelchair-borne pilgrims per hour.“Since the bridge would be set...
08-07-2013 News Release 13/124 Geneva/Yangon (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is expanding its efforts in Myanmar to improve prison conditions and help those suffering from armed conflict and other violence. Severe unrest in Rakhine state...
YANGON, 7 July 2013 – The United Nations Resident Coordinator and UNICEF welcomed the discharge today of 34 children and 8 young people by the Myanmar Armed Forces, or Tatmadaw, in line with the Government’s commitment to end the recruitment and use of children by the...
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...
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