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A total of 41 non-government organisations have been withdrawn from the Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar for their wrongdoings, foreign minister AK Abdul Momen said today (Saturday).
He came up with the information while inaugurating waste management activities at Dakshin Surma in Sylhet City Corporation.
Action will be taken against any NGOs that do something breaching the terms and references, he said.
A total of 139 NGOs had been working in the Rohingya camps since August 2017 and with the withdrawal of the 41 NGOs from there, the number now comes down to 98.
Just two days before, Wednesday, the NGO Affairs Bureau suspended six projects that Mukti, an NGO, had been conducting from its Cox's Bazar branch.
They were suspended on the allegations that this NGO had made some 600 sharp weeding tools for distribution among the Rohingyas, according to media reports.
Bangladesh is currently hosting more than 1.1 million Rohingyas who have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar amid the military offensive that started against them on August 25, 2017.