Daw Tin Tin, 66, smokes a cheroot in the informal housing she shares with relatives in the Yay Oak Kan section of Yangon's Hlaing Tharyar Township on May 1. (Frontier)
Daw Tin Tin, 66, smokes a cheroot in the informal housing she shares with relatives in the Yay Oak Kan section of Yangon's Hlaing Tharyar Township on May 1. (Frontier)

‘Now we are starving’: After coup, Yangon’s most vulnerable struggle to feed themselves

Since the February 1 coup pushed Myanmar’s economy off the edge, residents living in informal housing on the urban fringe – already battered by the COVID-19 pandemic – are being pushed to the brink of starvation.

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