Rohingya refugees build a make-shift mosque at Balukhali refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. "Landslide and flood risk hazard mapping reveal that at least 100,000 people are in grave danger from these risks and require relocation to new areas or within the neighborhoods that they live in," the U.N. report said. In addition, congestion brings increased protections risks and favors disease outbreak such as the diphtheria outbreak currently escalating in most of the sites. "The anticipated flooding and landslides in the upcoming monsoon season will make a bad situation much worse. "Humanitarian partners are now building necessary infrastructure in challenging conditions, with extremely limited space," the U.N. report said.
Source: Egypt Today January 29, 2018 09:33 UTC