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Bangladeshs urban slums swell with climate migrants
2016-05-24 14:06:38| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press: Abdul Aziz, 35, arrived in the capital Dhaka in 2006 after losing all his belongings to the mighty Meghna River. Once, he and his family had lived happily in the village of Dokkhin Rajapur in Bhola, a coastal district of Bangladesh. Aziz had a beautiful house and large amount of arable land. But riverbank erosion snatched away his household and all his belongings. Now he lives with his four-member family, including his 70-year-old mother, in the capital`s Malibagh slum. "Once we had huge arable...
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