YANGON: The number of displaced people in Myanmar has reached three million, the United Nations said, the vast majority forced to flee their homes by conflict unleashed by the military’s 2021 coup.
Myanmar now has 3 million people displaced, UN says, as cyclone season approaches
There are now three million people displaced in Myanmar, by a United Nations estimate, a third of them children. Most have fled conflicts sparked by the 2021 coup against Aung San Suu Kyi’s government …
In Myanmar war, crucial window looms for junta and rebels as coming monsoons make it ‘harder and more dangerous’
The junta and the resistance have a limited window to make gains or hold their ground, as rain-laden monsoon clouds begin rolling across Myanmar around early June.
‘Bleak milestone’: UN says 3 million forced to flee in Myanmar conflict
United Nations says the number displaced has jumped by 50 percent in last six months as fighting has intensified.
Cambodia’s Former PM Urges Myanmar Junta Chief to Allow Video Call With Suu Kyi
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Cambodia’s former Prime Minister Hun Sen asked Myanmar’s ruling general on Tuesday to allow him to speak to detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on a video call, a request …
In Myanmar war, crucial window looms for junta and rebels
In the jungles of southeastern Myanmar’s Dawna Hills, rebels from an armed ethnic group are fighting to hold back columns of reinforcements sent by the country’s ruling junta to try to reclaim …
Myanmar reopens foreign work applications amid draft turmoil
BANGKOK/YANGON — Myanmar’s military government on Monday resumed processing permit requests for male citizens seeking to work abroad, ending a short-lived halt imposed in an apparent effort to curb a surge in young adults trying to flee conscription.
Powerful ethnic armed group in western Myanmar claims to capture base and hundreds of soldiers
BANGKOK (AP) — A powerful ethnic minority armed group battling Myanmar’s army in the country’s west claimed Monday to have taken hundreds of government soldiers prisoner when it captured a major …
With Influx Of 50 More Refugees, 34,332 People From Myanmar Sheltered In Mizoram
(MENAFN- IANS) Aizawl, May 6 (IANS) With around 50 more refugees coming to Mizoram from Myanmar, as many as 34,332 Myanmarese have taken shelter in the northeastern state so far, officials said on Monday. A Mizoram government official said that around 50 …
26 Ugandans rescued in Myanmar, trafficker arrested
Ugandans rescued in Myanmar, trafficker arrested At least 26 Ugandans have been rescued from rebels in Myanmar in Southeast