Local residents in Sittwe have complained about the township electricity office’s seizure of electricity meters in the Arakan State capital.

Approval of distribution and transportation plans for the Cyclone Mocha relief response in Arakan and Chin states remains pending, UNOCHA Myanmar said in a statement on June 19.

Cases of dengue fever and malaria have been reported in some camps for internally displaced people (IDP) in Arakan state due to mosquito bites, according to IDPs and displacement camp officials.

Some people with disabilities affected by Cyclone Mocha in Arakan State are unable to repair their damaged homes and are reportedly facing food difficulties.

Students who failed this year’s matriculation examination are, “for the time being,” not allowed to learn the new curriculum at public schools, according to U Ba Htwee Sein, the head of the Arakan State Education Office.

“We have been going hungry. We only earn between K3,000 and K5,000 per day. As I have no regular income, I have had to eat rice with only salt some days,” said U Hla Kyaw, a cycle-rickshaw driver from Sittwe.

Deputy junta chief Soe Win, who is also the chairman of Myanmar’s Natural Disaster Management Committee, visited the Thakkel Pyin displacement camp for Muslim internally displaced people in the Arakan State capital Sittwe on Thursday.

Four people — three men and one woman — were struck dead and one woman was seriously injured by lightning in Arakan State’s Ponnagyun, Kyauktaw and Mrauk-U townships on June 16.

Buildings and classrooms of some orphanages in Arakan State were destroyed by Cyclone Mocha and financial assistance is needed to repair the damaged buildings, according to officials.

There is an urgent need to plant trees in the current rainy season in Arakan State, environmentalists are warning, as many trees including perennial plants were blown down by Cyclone Mocha.

Out of 752 healthcare centres such as hospitals and clinics damaged or destroyed by Cyclone Mocha, which made landfall over Arakan State on May 14 with destructive force, 750 facilities have been reopened, according to a statement released by the Arakan State military council.

Arakan State needs 522 billion kyats for rehabilitation after Cyclone Mocha, and the Union government has only granted 7 billion kyats, according to the Arakan State Administration Council (ASAC).

Electricity supply to storm-hit townships will continue to improve next month, according to the junta’s Arakan State Administration Council (ASAC).

“Innocent people dare not sleep well at night as the regime keeps an eye on those who criticise [it] and makes arrests,”

Many Arakan State residents who face political charges continue to suffer as courts repeatedly postpone verdicts, according to family members of the defendants and their lawyers.

A basic education high school in Htolwiwa Village in Bago Region’s Taungoo was forced to close after three female students were wounded by an artillery shell that landed near the school.

As of June 12, a total of 21,164 households received food supplies and 51,942 households were provided with shelters, while 199,609 households needed food items and 169,206 households were in need of shelter assistance.

About 60 Muslim children under the age of 5 living in Hnget Chaung internally displaced person (IDP) camp in Pauktaw Township, Arakan State, are reportedly suffering from skin disease.

More than 800 of some 900 communications base stations damaged by Cyclone Mocha in Arakan State have been repaired so far, according to Myanmar’s military regime.