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Sustainable peace in Sudan: how international investment and solidarity can help end a ‘forgotten war’

In recent years, armed conflicts have frequently made global headlines, but media coverage has largely focused on just a few highly publicised wars. These conflicts represent only the tip of the iceberg: more than 50 countries are currently suffering from shocking levels of armed violence, many of which receive little…

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Myanmar overtakes Syria to become country with highest landmine casualties

Civilians, including children, bearing the brunt of the devastation, Landmine Monitor 2024 report notes

The Independent UK

Sharp rise recorded in landmine casualties in 2023, warns report

Civilians, including children, make up 84 percent of landmine casualties, with the highest numbers last year in Myanmar.

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'An Inauspicious Day': The Landmines Ruining Myanmar Lives

It was an unlucky day in the Burmese calendar, farmer Yar Swe Kyin warned her husband in July, begging him not to go out to check on their crops.

International Business Times

Myanmar Led World In Landmine Victims In 2023: Monitor

Landmines and unexploded munitions claimed more victims in Myanmar than in any other country last year, a monitor said on Wednesday, with over 1,000 people killed or wounded in the country.

International Business Times

Myanmar overtakes Syria as country with highest landmine casualties

Landmine use has significantly increased in Myanmar as conflict has spread after the military’s seizure of power in February 2021

The Guardian - AU

Southeast Asian defense chiefs meet in Laos as maritime disputes with China are flaring

Southeast Asian defense chiefs and representatives are meeting in the Laotian capital for security talks at a time of increasing maritime disputes with China in the Asia-Pacific and as the transition to a new U.S. president looms

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Myanmar airstrikes indiscriminately target civilians a rights group says in a new report

Myanmar’s military has consistently targeted civilians and their communities as a form of collective punishment in the country’s southeast since the army seized power in early 2021

The Independent UK

Two million people at risk of starvation in Myanmar’s Rakhine: UN

UNDP says without urgent action, 95 percent of the population will regress into survival mode.

Al Jazeera

UN Warns Of Imminent Famine In Myanmar's Rakhine State

UNDP report warns of imminent humanitarian catastrophe in Myanmar's Rakhine state, urging urgent action to prevent starvation and suffering.

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Myanmar's conflict-torn Rakhine state could face an imminent acute famine, UN report warns

The U.N. Development Programs is warning that 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 Independent UK

"We urge B'desh to ensure safety of Hindus," MEA on Chittagong attacks

India has again condemned recent attacks on the Hindu community in Chittagong, Bangladesh and said that such actions would only create more tensions in the community. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

2 million at risk of starvation in Myanmar state amid ‘total economic collapse’

Exclusive: a UN report will accuse the military of imposing ‘collective punishment’ on Rakhine state, more than three years after seizing power in a coup

The Guardian - AU

Myanmar military chief makes first visit to China as civil war rages in country

Shadow government ‘concerned’ by army chief’s visit to China

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Myanmar military government chief on first visit to ally China since coup

Min Aung Hlaing travels to Beijing as conflict near Chinese border escalates.

International Business Times

Myanmar Junta Chief Visits Key Ally China

Myanmar's embattled junta chief arrived in China Tuesday -- his first reported visit since leading a coup in 2021 -- but analysts say the invitation is only a lukewarm endorsement from his key ally and could backfire.

International Business Times

The Marble 'Living Buddhas' Trapped By Myanmar's Civil War

Sculptor Aung Naing Lin has spent decades carving Buddha statues to help guide Myanmar's faithful -- but getting the marble he needs from rebel-held quarries in the midst of civil war is now a perilous task.

The Independent UK

Head of Myanmar's military government to visit close ally China

Myanmar's state media says the head of Myanmar’s military government will pay an official visit this week to China, the embattled Southeast Asian nation’s most important international ally

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Myanmar Junta Chief To Visit China For First Time Since Coup

Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing will travel to key ally China this week, both countries said Monday, in his first known trip there since seizing power in a 2021 coup.

The Guardian - UK

‘I want my daughters to be educated’: how Rohingya women refugees are taking charge of their own futures

Almost 1 million refugees live in Cox’s Bazar – and many of them are women and girls at risk of gender-based violence. But, with the support of ActionAid, training in vocational skills, community participation and leadership is helping them advocate for the needs of their community

Al Jazeera

Six dead as boat carrying Rohingya fleeing Myanmar arrives in Indonesia

Ninety-six Rohingya refugees, including seven children, are stranded on Sumatra island after escaping on a rickety boat.

The Independent UK

New sanctions target Myanmar's military suppliers

Opponents of Myanmar’s military government have welcomed the latest sanctions imposed by the European Union, the U.K. and Canada on individuals and entities supplying aviation fuel and equipment to the army

Al Jazeera

Continued conflict leaves Myanmar mired in crisis: UN

Human suffering at unprecedented levels and criminal networks ‘out of control’, UN special envoy warns.

The Independent UK

UN envoy warns Myanmar is in crisis, with conflict escalating and criminal networks 'out of control'

The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar has warned that the Southeast Asian nation is in crisis, with conflict escalating, criminal networks “out of control” and human suffering at unprecedented levels

Evening Standard

UK and allies sanction Myanmar companies over airstrikes on civilians

The military government of Myanmar, which took power in a coup in 2021, has used ‘increasingly brutal tactics’ to shore up its position.

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