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Bangladesh bans foreign charities helping Rohingya

Bangladesh has ordered three international charities to stop providing aid to Rohingya refugees who cross the border to flee persecution and violence in Myanmar, an official said on Thursday.

A Rohingya Muslim woman walks with her child at an unregistered refugee camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh in June 2012. Bangladesh has ordered three international charities to stop providing aid to Rohingya refugees who cross the border to flee persecution and violence in Myanmar, an official said Thursday.

France's Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Action Against Hunger (ACF) as well as Britain's Muslim Aid UK have been told to suspend their services in Cox's Bazaar district bordering Myanmar, local administrator Joynul Bari said.

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