Bangladesh: Floods devastate communities as Oxfam scales up response
Dhaka, July 14 -- Over 1.1 million people across Bangladesh have been badly affected by floods due to waterlogging and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rainfall and upstream runoff since 4 July.
Chattogram has borne the heaviest impacts on people's lives and livelihoods, while Cox's Bazar, including the Rohingya refugee camps, continues to face flooding, landslide risks and damage to essential services.
"This is one emergency unfolding across two distinct contexts," said Anil Pant, Country Director of Oxfam in Bangladesh. "The floods and their cascading impacts have severely disrupted people's lives and livelihoods. In Chattogram and other affected districts, families have lost homes, income and access to safe drinking water and sa...
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