An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
BY Frontier
An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
BY Frontier
United States funding cuts have hit TB treatment in Myanmar particularly hard, leaving many of the country’s most vulnerable in a precarious position after the post-coup healthcare collapse erased years of progress.
BY Frontier
The swift delivery of aid to survivors of the recent earthquake must take precedence over transient political gains in a long-running conflict.
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Across rural Myanmar, villagers who once volunteered to help stop the spread of COVID-19 are instead fleeing from military crackdowns or joining armed resistance. By.
BY Frontier
The United States has determined that the violence against the Rohingya minority committed by Myanmar's military amounted to genocide and crimes against humanity.
BY AFP
More than a year after the first anti-coup militias began to form and wage armed struggle against Myanmar’s military regime, young activists continue to stage peaceful protests in the streets despite brutal repression.
BY Frontier
The military has taken over Myanmar’s courts and moved them inside prisons to prosecute anti-regime activists, as calls grow for judges to join the mass strike of civil servants.
BY Frontier
As the economy continues to struggle under the junta's mismanagement, people in Myanmar are now contending with daily power outages and water shortages.
BY AFP
Military-linked social media accounts, mainly on Telegram, continue to dox activists and encourage violence, including assassinations. Although one of the most controversial accounts was recently removed from the platform, critics say Telegram is still not doing enough to regulate content.
With most charity groups in hiding and regular blood donors afraid or unwilling to donate at state-run facilities, illegal “blood brokers” are increasingly preying on those in need amid a blood shortage.
BY Frontier
More than a year since the military pushed peaceful protests toward armed resistance, there is no visible end to Myanmar’s expanded civil war.
BY Frontier
Western-led state-building initiatives in Myanmar have long promoted a neoliberal model of development and democratisation that has inadvertently benefited the military over everyone else in Myanmar.
BY Minn Tent Bo
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