In April 2026, around 250 Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi nationals were reported missing after a boat departing from Teknaf capsized in the Andaman Sea. Only 9 people survived. In the first 4 months of 2026 more than 2,800 Rohingya had already attempted crossings, with most aiming at reaching Malaysia. In this Humanitarian Watch we explain what pushes displaced Rohingya to take this extremely dangerous journey, and how difficult life is for those that remain trapped inside Rakhine State, Myanmar and the sprawling refugee camps in Southern Bangladesh. 

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This is not the first time we've covered this topic, so dive into our archive or  our previous in-depth episode on the Rohingya- 

FRACTURED S03E16: STILL STATELESS- Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh 

https://youtu.be/jN3e1pd8M2E

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Hosts: 

Sonia Nandzik-Herman

Douglas Herman

Production Family: 

Dawoud Nouri, Yaser Akbari,

Ziad Ibrahim, Sonia Nandzik-Herman

Wassim Ahmed, Melek Moussa, Angel Sifontes

Citizen Journalists: 

Yaser Taheri, Milad Ebrahimi, Yaser Akbari, Naqib Rasuli, Mohammad Ali Alami

Mentorship: 

Douglas Herman 

Producers: 

Sonia Nandzik-Herman, Douglas Herman 

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Eli Fazlollah 

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Music: 

Theme: "Intro for Legends" by Bonkers Beat Club (Epidemic Sound) 

Additional: "Mogul" by Blue Steel (Epidemic Sound)

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To the extended ReFOCUS Family for their dedication, passion and creativity all year long. We’re not where we are today without all the effort from Dominika Pawlik, Weronika Pawlik, Liz Nasyrova, Evi Amersfoort,  Alina Mieniailova, Florian Krauer, Louise Holm, Chryssa Kouroukli, Natalia Tsarenko, Fine Bieler, Tommaso Stingo, Nazanin Foroghi, Dariia Stepanova, Rada Valchanova, Walker Watson, Eleonora Giacomelli, Joseph Murray, Omer Butt, Wojtek Paluch, Matthew Goncalves O’Kelly, Jennifer Perez, Jule Pehnt, Majid Bakhshi, Paul “Al” Simon, Jaime Moro Saavedra, Joëlle Hübscher, Beni Rietmann, Jakob Mayr, Jurek Edel, Francisco Ibanez, Bart Van Son, Federico Bustamente, Myriam Rey, Lotta Luley, Federico Rinaldi, Fatima Al Ali, Karina Kozłowska, Grace Neely, Marion Olang, Beryl Waindi, Dominika Pawlik, Evi Amersfoort, Tess Scott Bell, Weronika Pavlik, Liz Nasyrova, Alina Mieniailova

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