TangailEstimates of Bangladesh’s Bede range from 75,000 to 800,000.
Clinics, schools and civil registers assume a fixed address, which boat families lack.
Floods, erosion and drying channels are forcing families off the Jamuna River, according to a May 2026 study of three Tangail settlements.
A Dhaka University study of Munshiganj settlements urges government agencies and relief NGOs to coordinate.
How each outlet framed it
- Global Voices
- frames Bede displacement as an ongoing condition, not one event, and quotes a sardar: 'We cannot change the river'
Sources: Global Voices