A Catholic bishop in Myanmar’s Rakhine State has expressed grief over a mounting death toll and public suffering due to displacement, hunger and forced conscription amid escalating fighting between ...

A girls sells food at the internally displaced persons camp for Rohingya people outside Sittwe in the state of Rakhine, Myanmar, November 15, 2016. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun (Reuters) -Hunger is rising in ...

Three bombs exploded in different locations around Rakhines state capital Sittwe early Saturday morning, including at the home of a high ranking official, Myanmar police told AFP, adding that no ...

People in western Myanmar have been driven to scavenging for bamboo shoots, as humanitarian workers warn a wartime blockade and aid cutbacks led by Washington have caused hunger cases to surge.

AFP AFP Dec 11, 2025 Dec 11, 2025 Updated 31 mins ago A Myanmar military air strike killed more than 30 people at a hospital, aid workers said Thursday, as the junta wages a withering offensive ahead ...

While we on the East Coast of the United States get battered by the hurricane, reports suggest that the most recent wave of strife in Rakhine State has cooled, at least temporarily. The Irrawaddy ...

Over the past two years, the international community, and much of the media, has focused on the situation in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State, where a brutal campaign against the Rohingya, reportedly ...

A UNFPA community center led by Rohingya women in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2025. Credit: Crisis Group/Margarite Clarey Eight years after a violent crackdown by the ...

(Reuters) -Hunger is rising in Myanmar, the impoverished Southeast Asian country that has been ravaged by conflict since a 2021 military coup ousted an elected civilian government. Some 3.6 million ...