Myanmar declaring a portion of Rohingya refugees eligible for repatriation might sound like overwhelmingly good news. But in reality, they cannot return as long as the Arakan Army controls Rakhine ...

After a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on March 28. 2025, the country’s military and the myriad resistance ...

Thousands were killed in 7.7 magnitude earthquake. Yet military generals were slow to agree to pause in civil war fighting, ...

New tremors rattled survivors of Friday’s earthquake, which killed more than 1,600 people, while the government continued its ...

capacity-building initiatives and humanitarian aid within the Arakan State Development Programme, which is focused on meeting the needs and priorities of the province’s people. The two sides concurred ...

Fighting between the Arakan Army (AA) and Myanmar’s junta has escalated across three townships in Ayeyarwady Region near the border with Rakhine State, displacing thousands of civilians, according to ...

Attacks by the group, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, were used as a pretext by the Myanmar military to launch a campaign ...

In a statement on Dec. 29, 2024, the AA promised it would be “working towards achieving freedom for the people of Arakan.” The Rohingya community, as well as all other communities, should be actively ...

The cuts will also impact almost 100,000 internally displaced people, including Rohingyas ... About the role of the Arakan Army in Rohingya repatriation, Guterres said, "We know that in the ...

Asked if dialogue with the Arakan Army , an ethnic minority rebel ... said on Friday that it will be forced to cut off one million people in war-torn Myanmar from its vital food aid because ...

At one point, they mistakenly crossed the zero line of the Bangladesh-Myanmar border and entered Myanmar waters, where Arakan Army members detained them for illegal entry, he said. "Following BGB ...

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