Gambia offers to take in all Rohingya migrants

Rohingya refugees who are fleeing southeast Asia to escape oppression have been offered a home in Gambia.

The Muslim-majority country is not wealthy — the UN's 2013 human development report stated that one-third of the population lives off of $1.25 or less a day, and thousands of migrants have left for Europe, with many dying in the process — so it is also asking other nations to send medicine, bedding, tents, and household items so it can set up "habitable camps with decent sanitary conditions."

In a statement, the government said it was primarily reaching out to offer aid because Muslims were in peril: "The government of Gambia notes with grave concern the inhumane condition of the Rohingya people of Myanmar — especially those referred to as 'boat people' — currently drifting in the seas off the coast of Malaysia and Indonesia. As human beings, more so fellow Muslims, it is a sacred duty to help alleviate the untold hardships and sufferings fellow human beings are confronted with."

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