News Monitor

Deadly attacks continue to intensify in Rakhine State with a surge in casualties and displacement and reports of increasing numbers of people seeking shelter and protection in Bangladesh.

Humanitarian access in Rakhine has become extremely challenging. Critical services are jeopardised, exacerbated by electricity, telecommunications and internet blackouts since January.

Increasingly, civilians fleeing Maungdaw and Lashio are being killed. The humanitarian community strongly condemns the escalation of violence and demands protection for all civilians.

“This flood comes at a time when food insecurity in Myanmar is at an emergency level. With more than 13 million people grappling with food insecurity, the floods only exacerbate their vulnerability.”

“This flood comes at a time when food insecurity in Myanmar is at an emergency level. With more than 13 million people grappling with food insecurity, the floods only exacerbate their vulnerability.”

MSF teams, while maintaining minimum level of activities in some townships in the central part of Rakhine, struggle with severe access restrictions, and the consequences of violent conflict.

The extreme escalation of conflict, indiscriminate violence and severe restrictions on access in northern Rakhine have forced MSF to suspend activities in Rathedaung, Buthidaung and Maungdaw.

“Once again, the world seems to be failing a desperate people in their hour of peril while a hate-driven unnatural disaster unfolds in real time in Myanmar’s Rakhine State,” said Tom Andrews.