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Salimah Shivji

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South Asia Correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | based in Mumbai [email protected]

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  • Myanmar accused of blocking rescue efforts after deadly earthquake

    3 weeks ago | msn.com | Salimah Shivji

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  • 'Weaponization of aid': Myanmar accused of blocking rescue efforts after deadly earthquake

    3 weeks ago | cbc.ca | Salimah Shivji

    Mere hours after the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit central Myanmar last Friday, the head of the military junta controlling the country, Min Aung Hlaing, pleaded for any and all international assistance to be sent quickly to the isolated country.

  • Mark Carney to be sworn in as prime minister

    1 month ago | cbc.ca | Salimah Shivji |Michael Woods |Catharine Tunney |Margaret Evans

    Mark Carney to be sworn in as prime minister | CBC LoadedCBC News Special | Carney Swearing-inStarted 20 minutes agoCBC News Chief Political Correspondent Rosemary Barton hosts special coverage as Mark Carney is sworn in as Canada's 24th prime minister. The swearing-in ceremony will begin around 11 a.m. ET. After Carney is in place, his cabinet will take their oaths. The new cabinet will be mostly made up of ministers who have previously been in cabinet. CBC News is live now with special coverage.

  • 'Now is the time to change': Bangladesh struggles to repair damage from ousted PM's 15-year rule | CBC News

    1 month ago | cbc.ca | Salimah Shivji

    The chants get louder as hundreds of protesters turn a corner in the central part of Bangladesh's capital, marching and calling for an end to a steep hike in gang activity and violent crime. It was the second rally in as many weeks where young people poured onto the streets of Dhaka to voice their displeasure at where the country is headed.

  • In the world’s largest refugee camp, Trump’s USAID freeze makes a bad situation worse

    1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Salimah Shivji

    On a weekday at the world’s largest refugee camp, dozens of women and men form two surging queues, pushing to reach the front of the line to get their official aid registration cards processed. The crowd is made of refugees from neighbouring Myanmar’s persecuted Muslim minority Rohingya community, recently arrived at the sprawling complex housing more than a million people in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. “They are all Rohingya who have arrived here in the last month.

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8 Dec 24

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