Cyclone Mocha Leaves Thousands Homeless in Bangladesh and Myanmar There was less damage than predicted, but the Rohingya refugee camps on the coast of Bangladesh, where most live in simple ...

Cyclone Mocha Leaves Thousands Homeless in Bangladesh and Myanmar There was less damage than predicted, but the Rohingya refugee camps on the coast of Bangladesh, where most live in simple ...

The aftermath has again exposed the regime’s prioritisation of political control over citizen lives. It leaves urgent questions about equitable aid distribution in a nation fractured by civil war – a ...

In the aftermath of the devastating Cyclone Nargis of 2008, which killed upward of 100,000 people across southern Myanmar, the junta of the time pressed ahead with a constitutional referendum.

On May 2, 2008, a strengthening Cyclone Nargis came off the warm waters of the Bay of Bengal and pummeled central Myanmar, causing what would become the worst natural disaster in the country’s ...

In May, Cyclone Mocha, the most severe storm to hit Myanmar since Cyclone Nargis struck in 2008, made landfall on Rakhine State’s coast, causing widespread destruction. Two months after it pummelled ...

While the tragic consequences of Cyclone Nargis were immediately apparent, the damage done by the SPDC’s new constitution took more time to be revealed. Cyclone Nargis On May 2, 2008, Cyclone Nargis ...

Mayhem Cyclone Mocha ripped through exceptionally vulnerable areas, with nearly 5.4 million people in its path. Of these, around 3 million had pressing humanitarian needs even before the storm.

A previous military government was harshly discredited when it delayed the acceptance of outside aid in 2008, when Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar with a storm surge that devastated populated areas ...

More than 700,000 other Rohingya fled in 2017 to refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh, which also suffered damage from the cyclone but reported no deaths. The U.N. humanitarian affairs office ...

Myanmar: Cyclone Mocha death toll reaches 145 05/19/2023 Rakhine state was badly hit by the strongest storm in at least a decade. Local officials fear the number of victims is much higher, while ...

In 2008, Cyclone Nargis carved a swathe of destruction through Myanmar’s low lying Irrawaddy Delta, killing nearly 140,000 people.