Myanmar’s conflict-torn Rakhine State has witnessed a “dramatic rise in hunger” due to the continuing civil war and funding cuts from major foreign donors, including the United States, the U.N. World ...

As Myanmar's military loses ground, Rakhine state plunges into isolation, ethnic strife, and a humanitarian crisis that threatens regional stability.Rakhine state in western Myanmar plays a key role ...

But on most days it lies completely empty, as members of the stateless minority dread returning to a place they were violently driven from by the military, and Myanmar makes little effort to reassure ...

A Catholic bishop in Myanmar’s Rakhine State has expressed grief over a mounting death toll and public suffering due to displacement, hunger and forced conscription amid escalating fighting between ...

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) -After Ajib Bahar's six-month-old son fell sick last year in Myanmar's war-torn Rakhine state, the 38-year-old Rohingya mother said she had no medicine or food to ...

A girls sells food at the internally displaced persons camp for Rohingya people outside Sittwe in the state of Rakhine, Myanmar, November 15, 2016. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun (Reuters) -Hunger is rising in ...

In mid-April, the arrival in Dhaka of three U.S. State Department officials – two deputy assistant secretaries and the charge d’affaires in Naypyidaw, Myanmar – signaled the first signs of a critical ...

The escalation followed the junta-backed political bloc securing victories in the last three townships in Rakhine that had ...

In the last week of April, Bangladesh agreed in principle to a United Nations proposal to establish a humanitarian channel to Rakhine State in neighboring Myanmar, aiming to provide aid to thousands ...

Two months ago, the governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed on an arrangement for the voluntary return to Myanmar of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees currently living in the Cox’s ...

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi touted Rakhine state's "untapped" economic potential to investors Friday, but glossed over violence that has scorched the area -- most recently claiming the life of an ...

MINBYA TOWNSHIP, Myanmar, May 2 (UNHCR) - Being able to sit once more in a bright and airy room - and in her own home - makes a welcome change for Amina.* She and her family were among 145,000 people ...