Myanmar

Flooding in central Myanmar has wreaked havoc, devastating crops and forcing the closure of around 20 schools across 30 villages, Radio Free Asia reported yesterday. The Ayeyarwady River in the Magway region has overflowed, inundating approximately 20,000 acres of vital…

A new report published in The Guardian yesterday highlights the severe impact of armed conflict in Myanmar, revealing that airstrikes and ground fighting have damaged at least 174 educational institutions since the military coup in 2021. More details in the…

Around 30,000 civilians remain trapped in Lashio, the largest town in northeastern Myanmar’s Shan state, amid escalating violence between the military and the ethnic Kokang rebels, the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), RFA reported yesterday. This situation follows the…

In a meeting with his Burmese counterpart, Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud urged Myanmar to honor its promise of repatriating Rohingya refugees living in overcrowded camps in Cox’s Bazar, Anadolu Agency reported yesterday. The two diplomats met on the sidelines…

The UN Human Rights Council is urging an immediate end to violence and human rights abuses in Myanmar. A recently passed resolution expresses deep concern over the ongoing crisis, highlighting widespread abuses by both the military and opposition groups, the…

More than a quarter of Myanmar’s public schools, around 13,700 out of 48,753, have been forced to close due to the ongoing civil war in the country, RFA reported yesterday citing the military junta’s Ministry of Education. In western Chin…

The Rohingya minority in Myanmar’s Rakhine State are confronting a dire situation, with the United Nations warning of the risk of “genocidal violence” similar to the atrocities they suffered in 2016-2017, the Independent reported yesterday. Thomas Andrews, the UN special…

Heavy rains have caused rivers in Myanmar’s Kachin state to overflow, displacing an estimated 10,000 people, RFA reported yesterday. This flooding could be worse than the record set in 2004, according to relief workers involved in ongoing relief operations. Overflowing…

A British rights group is sounding the alarm over a surge in violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority, Al Jazeera reported yesterday. The Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) warns of an “intensifying genocide” as fighting between the military and the…

The UN’s top human rights official, Volker Türk, has condemned the horrific situation in Myanmar, UN News reported. Türk described the military regime’s use of “war tactics” like beheadings and drone attacks against civilians as “atrocity crimes.” The crisis stems…