The Arakan Liberation Army (ALA) said Thursday that it was not its fault that a man was shot dead in Sittwe recently. 

The Sanyin camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State’s Myebon Township, which was damaged by recent strong winds and heavy rain, is being rebuilt with the help of local and foreign donors, according to a camp official. 

The Daung Chaung village-tract administrator’s office in Gwa Township, Arakan State, was set on fire earlier this week, according to a clerk from the office.

Home goods and an array of other items made of coconut shells are products in search of new markets, the makers in Arakan State’s Thandwe Township have lamented.  

Basic education schools in Paletwa Township, Chin State, reopened on June 23 after being temporarily closed due to local COVID-19 infection rates, according to the township education office. 

The deputy commissioner of the Maungdaw District General Administration Department and one of his staff members have tested positive for COVID-19, and five staff members who came in contact with them were quarantined on June 23.

Two of six prisoners who were being transferred from Taungup Township to Thandwe Prison in Arakan State have tested positive for COVID-19, Thandwe Hospital Superintendent Dr. Ye Win Tun told DMG. 

Donors are still needed for more than 1,300 students studying at the Palay (Pearl) Yadana monastic education school in Thandwe Township, Arakan State. 

A 49-year-old woman from Nga Pyaw Chaung village in Kyauktaw Township was injured when she stepped on a landmine while heading to the jungle to harvest bamboo shoots.

Officials from the Arakan State military council say there is a plan to ensure that there is no shortage of food in camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State. 

The township electrical engineer’s office in Chin State’s Paletwa Township said it had initially announced that electricity, which is currently being distributed to households in downtown Paletwa from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. daily, would be temporarily cut off due to a shortage of fuel. However, under changed circumstances there will be no power outage as diesel was expected to arrive on Monday, he added.  

Kone Bwe village in Arakan State’s Kyaukphyu Township has been experiencing riverbank erosion for decades, according to locals.

Some camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) are facing housing difficulties due to incessant rains in Arakan State, according to camp officials.

Basic education primary, middle and high schools in Paletwa Township, Chin State, have been closed since June 9 for an indefinite period of time as Covid-19 has spread in the area, according to the township education office.

A weekly mobile library campaign is being held in Arakan State’s Sittwe, Minbya, Rathedaung, Kanhtaukgyi and Ramree towns to foster greater interest in literature among young people.

Two staff from the Maungdaw District General Administration Department in Arakan State tested positive for COVID-19 on June 20.

Dr. Soe Win Paing, assistant director of the Arakan State Health Department, has warned the public to be mindful of the continuing threat posed by the coronavirus. 

Four embassies in Yangon and the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) used International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict on June 19 “to unequivocally condemn acts of sexual violence by all armed actors, and those associated with them, in Myanmar.” 

Some 20 people were injured in a three-vehicle crash near Kin Taung and Pauk Pyin villages in Taungup Township, Arakan State, on June 18.