More than a month after the devastating March 28 earthquake, exhausted relief workers in Mandalay and nearby areas continue to toil in difficult conditions that have left some of them traumatised. We hear from relief workers who have been deeply affected by the death and suffering around them.
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More than a month after the devastating March 28 earthquake, exhausted relief workers in Mandalay and nearby areas continue to toil in difficult conditions that have left some of them traumatised. We hear from relief workers who have been deeply affected by the death and suffering around them.
BY Frontier
An early pledge by the parallel National Unity Government to replace Myanmar’s racist citizenship law raised hopes for marginalised communities, but impatience is growing as revolutionary groups trade blame for the delays.
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Ko Min said he found his son and daughter's bodies in the ruins of a schoolhouse in central Myanmar, moments after a deadly airstrike that witnesses said came as a military jet circled the village.
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Thousands of people who left their homes and belongings behind because of conflict have now been displaced yet again by floods. Doh Athan has heard from some of these IDPs, who are now struggling for basic survival, with very little help available.
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Myanmar's embattled junta on Thursday invited armed groups opposed to its rule to stop fighting and start talks to bring peace, after three-and-a-half years of conflict.
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As fighting spreads to southern Rakhine, thousands have fled for neighbouring Ayeyarwady, where they’ve had a frosty reception as the junta tightens security in one of its few remaining stable strongholds.
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Rohingya refugee Syed fled Rakhine State for a second time last month, after he was forced to fight alongside the military that drove his family out of their homeland in 2017.
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Myanmar is a football-loving nation. But the sport is proving to be more than just fun for youths in the Thai border town of Mae Sot who have fled conflict or economic collapse. It’s giving them relief from stress and trauma, and helping them to make friends.
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Amid the collapse of both the economy and the rule of law in Myanmar, moneylenders are setting extortionate interest rates for desperate borrowers and hiring thugs to collect their dues.
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Intense conflict in Myanmar’s Rakhine State has led to an increase in the number of severely injured civilians, even as aid organisations stop work in the region and services for the disabled decline.
BY Frontier
Would you rather eat or be connected to the outside world? That’s a choice facing some residents of northern Shan State, where conflict has tripled commodity prices and expensive Starlink services have replaced phone and internet access.
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Volunteers rushed to areas inundated by floods in Myanmar on Sunday as the country's death toll from the Typhoon Yagi deluge surged to 113 and remote areas reported increasing numbers of dead and missing.
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