More than 2 million face imminent famine in Rakhine state in Myanmar …
1 day ago · Myanmar's conflict-torn Rakhine state is heading toward famine, the United Nations warned on Thursday, as the country's civil war squeezes commerce and agricultural production.
Looming famine in Rakhine signals wider crisis in Myanmar | UN News
6 days ago · 7 November 2024 Peace and Security. 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 the democratically elected government. In a report released on Thursday, the UN Development Programme (UNDP ...
Myanmar's conflict-torn Rakhine state could face an imminent …
6 days ago · UNITED NATIONS (AP) — 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 Nations development agency warned in a new report.. The U.N. Development Program said in the report issued Thursday that “a perfect storm is brewing” which has put western Rakhine ...
Myanmar's war-torn Rakhine faces famine with 2 million people …
5 days ago · Myanmar's war-ravaged Rakhine state could face imminent famine according to a United Nations report, which estimates that more than two million people could be at the risk of starvation.
‘Like we are trapped’: Minorities suffer amid conflict in Myanmar’s Rakhine
Oct 4, 2024 · Members of Rakhine State’s Kaman minority are facing a similar crisis. Kamans, who are Muslim like the Rohingya, were also targeted during the 2012 conflict, leaving thousands displaced.
Myanmar: UN rights office warns of growing crisis in Rakhine ...
May 24, 2024 · The UN’s top human rights official on Friday raised alarm over the escalating violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state between junta and opposition forces amid reports of the military regime forcing...
Myanmar: Rohingyas in firing line as Rakhine conflict intensifies - UN News
Apr 19, 2024 · The UN’s top human rights official on Friday raised alarm over the escalating violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state between junta and opposition forces amid reports of the military regime forcing...
UN human rights office decries beheadings, other violence in Myanmar…
May 24, 2024 · GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office warned Friday of “frightening and disturbing reports” about the impact of new violence in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine, pointing to new attacks on Rohingya civilians by the military and an ethnic armed group fighting it.
Rohingya ‘genocide intensifying’ as war rages in Myanmar’s Rakhine …
26 Jun 2024. A United Kingdom-based rights group has called for global action over what it called an “intensifying genocide” against Myanmar’s mostly Muslim Rohingya minority as fighting between...
In Myanmar, a New Threat for the Rohingya - The New York Times
Jun 3, 2024 · The allegations against the Arakan Army are unfolding against the backdrop of reports that Rohingya have been conscripted into Myanmar’s military and joined troops in raiding Rakhine villages.