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This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 7 June 2013 Up to 140,000 people ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Places: ‘Super’ El Niño Threat, Myanmar Villages Razed, California’s Billionaire Tax Bill, and South Africa’s Murder Rate
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News Myanmar » Rakhine » Places: Tasting Myanmar's coastal cuisine, pushed to the brink by war
War has left people hungry in western Myanmar, but conflict-displaced chefs preserve the local flavours of its delicate noodles and briny broth far from a region where conflict blights harvests.
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Places: Myanmar junta suspends aid access to a million people in state devastated by Cyclone Mocha
Myanmar’s ruling junta has suspended humanitarian access to western Rakhine state, where more than a million vulnerable people are in urgent need of aid a month after a powerful cyclone devastated the ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Places: Myanmar Military Launches Air Strikes on Kachin, Rakhine, Shan States
2025 seems set to continue last year’s sharp increase in the number of retaliatory air and artillery attacks on resistance-held territories. Myanmar’s military junta is ramping up its air attacks on ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Places: What Happened at Htan Shauk Khan in Myanmar’s Rakhine State on May 2, 2024?
The Arakan Army was accused of slaughtering civilians. But residents say that air strikes and shelling on the village caused the fatalities. The Arakan Army (AA)’s military campaign to liberate the ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Places: A voice for the unheard in Myanmar: From the Rakhine coast to the frontlines of truth
Exile Hub is one of Global Voices’ partners in Southeast Asia, emerging in response to the 2021 coup in Myanmar, focusing on empowering journalists and human rights defenders. This edited article is ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Places: Myanmar among worst places for human trafficking, US report says
Myanmar has joined China, Syria and South Sudan as being among the countries doing least to tackle human trafficking, according to the US State Department's latest annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Places: Bangladesh: New Risks for Rohingya Refugees
(Bangkok) – Bangladesh and Myanmar are organizing returns of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to Myanmar’s Rakhine State without consulting the community or addressing the grave risks to their lives ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Places: ‘The water took them.’ Myanmar residents describe horror of Cyclone Mocha
Abdul Hussein wipes away tears as he describes the day waves churned by Cyclone Mocha took his wife and three daughters from him. His family – all 11 of them – had huddled together in their house in ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Places: Myanmar military shells rebel-held Rakhine town
Myanmar's military shelled a town in western Rakhine state and used helicopters to attack fighters from an ethnic minority there on Thursday, residents and local media said. Arakan Army (AA) fighters ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Places: One year on: Displacement in Rakhine state, Myanmar
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 7 June 2013 Also ...