Staff Reporter

The European Union (EU) has expressed its concern over the slow repair work of coastal embankments destroyed by cyclone Aila.
It is essential to repair the 700 kilometres embankments completely by the end of March this year, it said.
Thousands of people, displaced by Aila, have been living in makeshift shelters for the last ten months with risks, Dr Stefan Frowein, Head of the EU Delegation to Bangladesh said in a statement He said that if the embankments were not repaired urgently, the humanitarian consequences would be
catastrophic. [Read More]

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Source: The New Nation