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Myanmar’s Rakhine State faces possible famine due to plummeting incomes and disruptions to employment and agricultural production linked to the ongoing conflict in the state, the United Nations has ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Economy: Looming famine in Rakhine signals wider crisis in Myanmar
Up to two million people in Myanmar’s Rakhine state face the dire prospect of famine, amid a broader economic collapse and worsening humanitarian crisis triggered by the military’s 2021 overthrow of ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Economy: Prospects For A Political Solution To The Myanmar Crisis – OpEd
A peaceful resolution to Myanmar's prolonged conflict remains uncertain. Despite repression, displacement, economic hardship, and immense sacrifice, peace has ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Economy: Myanmar's conflict-torn Rakhine state could face an imminent acute famine, UN report warns
FILE - Rohingya refugees gather near a fence during a government organized media tour, to a no-man's land between Myanmar and Bangladesh, near Taungpyolatyar village, Maung Daw, northern Rakhine State ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Economy: Myanmar’s Economy Shrank 2 Percent in Year to March, Report Says
Myanmar’s economy is set to shrink by 2 percent this financial year, due to the effects of intensifying conflict and economic mismanagement by the military junta, according to the latest Myanmar ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Economy: A famine looms large over Myanmar’s Rakhine State
In a report titled Rakhine: A Famine in the Making released last week, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) claims the region in western Myanmar “stands on the precipice of an unprecedented disaster.” ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Economy: Two million people at risk of starvation in Myanmar’s Rakhine: UN
Myanmar‘s war-ravaged Rakhine state could face imminent famine according to a new United Nations report, which estimates that more than two million people could be at risk of starvation. “Rakhine’s ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Economy: Myanmar's 37 Million at Risk: How Deepening Poverty Threatens Economic Growth and Recovery
Myanmar’s deepening poverty crisis, affecting over 37 million people, threatens economic recovery as conflict, climate shocks, rising costs and youth migration weaken livelihoods and essential ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Economy: Myanmar military battles to push rebels back from Chinese economic zone
Myanmar’s military bombed a village in an economic zone that is vital to China’s investment in Myanmar, sparking a fire that burned almost 200 homes, residents told Radio Free Asia, as insurgents ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Economy: World powers must help save lives in Myanmar’s Rakhine State
In the last week of April, Bangladesh agreed in principle to a United Nations proposal to establish a humanitarian channel to Rakhine State in neighboring Myanmar, aiming to provide aid to thousands ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Economy: At least 33 people killed in western Myanmar airstrike, rebel group and aid worker say
A recent military airstrike in Kyauktaw, Rakhine state, resulted in 33 deaths and numerous injuries. Local sources indicate that the airstrike targeted a civilian area rather than combatants. This ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Economy: Myanmar's conflict-torn Rakhine state could face an imminent acute famine, UN report warns
UNITED NATIONS — Myanmar’s Rakhine state, home to the Rohingya minority and engulfed in conflict between government forces and a powerful ethnic group, could face an imminent acute famine, the United ...