ARSA chief Ataullah Abu Ammar Jununi has said the land in Myanmar’s Arakan belongs to the Rohingya people. While appearing in ...

A positive news update has been revealed regarding the repatriation of Rohingya. In the first phase, the authorities of the ...

This also raises the question: can the repatriation process realistically begin under such dire circumstances in Rakhine?

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 ...

Three significant developments have occurred in a week which once again brought the much-talked-about Rohingya refugee crisis ...

The leader of an armed group representing a persecuted Muslim minority from Myanmar was arrested in a raid in neighbouring Bangladesh this week and charged under an anti-terrorism law. Ataullah, an ...

As conflict escalates in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, the plight of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh remains as dire as ever. Recent developments – including the Arakan Army’s decision to ban the ...

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It was still dark, early on a January morning in 2024, when Mohammad Ayas slipped out of the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, and trekked deep into the forest, returning to the ...

About 70,000 others crossed the border from Myanmar in 2024 when, during fighting with the military junta, the opposition ...