UN, WB chiefs likely to visit Rohingya camps in Bangladesh

https://www.thedailystar.net/rohingya-crisis/united-nations-world-bank-chiefs-likely-visit-rohingya-camps-bangladesh-1591642

Rejaul Karim Byron

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim are likely to make a two-day official visit to Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar district of Bangladesh on July 1.

Apart from visiting the refugee camps, they will hold meetings with Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina and Finance Minister AMA Muhith, the government's Economic
Relations Division(ERD) sources said.

“A visit to Bangladesh by World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim is currently
under consideration. Details on the visit will be shared when they become available,”
said Qimiao Fan, World Bank country director for Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal.

The World Bank may provide Bangladesh with a grant worth around $200 million to
help tackle the ongoing Rohingya crisis, the sources said.

Some 700,000 Rohingya minorities crossed the border from Myanmar's Rakhine state
since August last year, and are now living in cramped camps at Cox's Bazar.