Yohei Sasakawa, the Japanese special envoy for national reconciliation in Myanmar, visited camps for internally displaced people (IDP) in Arakan State over the weekend, his third visit to the country’s westernmost territory since assuming the role of peace mediator.

Two Grade 7 students were killed and four others were injured when a grenade exploded in Kontan Kyeinchaung Village, part of Arakan State’s Ponnagyun Township, on Friday night.

Green Network-Sittwe, a civil society organisation based in Sittwe, is conducting an opinion poll on garbage disposal in order to help solve the problems facing residents of the Arakan State capital in dumping their household waste, and to disseminate knowledge about eco-friendly garbage disposal methods.

There are more than 50 school-aged children living in the Myo Oo Khaung camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Mrauk-U Township, Arakan State, of which more than 40 children lack the support needed to continue their education, according to camp officials.

“We didn’t notice that he went missing, searched for him and found his body at around 3 p.m. He always strays from home to catch birds.

The United League of Arakan (ULA), the political wing of the Arakan Army (AA), handed down the death sentence to a man convicted of killing a young woman near the state government offices in the Arakan State capital Sittwe last year.

About 2,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) sheltering at the Thayet Oak displacement camp in Kyauktaw Township, Arakan State, are facing a shortage of drinking water as well as toilet difficulties.

Bamboo entrepreneurs in some Arakan State townships are exporting bamboo to mainland Myanmar, but they are facing losses due to the high cost, according to people who work in the industry.

Political observers have criticised the Myanmar military regime’s move to extend its emergency rule declaration for an additional six months, calling the decision a loss for the country.

The Myanmar military has barred residents from organising a major pagoda festival in Arakan State’s Ponnagyun during the evening hours, according to locals.

Training schools will be opened for students in Arakan State who have completed secondary education, allowing them to pick a subject of their choice from among industrial technology, agriculture and livestock skills.

An average of three seniors die every month at displacement camps in Hpruso Township, Kayah (Karenni) State, due to shortages of medicines, according to volunteers assisting internally displaced people (IDPs).

The junta-controlled Union Election Commission’s new Political Parties Registration Law has left small ethnic parties in Arakan State uncertain about their continued existence.

Arakan State’s Maungdaw Township was among the top five townships in terms of suffering junta airstrikes since the military takeover on February 1, 2021, according to a research report by Myanmar Peace Monitor, a project of Burma News International (BNI).

An expo and market fair, the first of its kind in Kyaukphyu, Arakan State, kicked off at Yammarwadi Hall on Tuesday morning.

In the two years since the military coup in Myanmar, 1,232 members of the National League for Democracy (NLD), including 80 members of parliament, have been arrested. Of them, five NLD members were from Arakan State, according to the NLD Central Working Committee.

Free homes will be built in some Sittwe Township villages for poor people affected by natural disasters, according to the Department of Rural Development (DRD).

Nearly six months after the regime’s Arakan State Administration Council (ASAC) promised 10 billion kyats in loans to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Arakan State, qualifying business owners say they have yet to receive any loans.

An internally displaced person (IDP) from Kunohnsu Village in Kyauktaw Township, Arakan State, who had his leg amputated after stepping on a landmine, is in need of financial assistance to treat his injuries.