ANP makes a splash with late campaign push through southern Arakan 

Myo Myint Zaw 26 Oct 2020

A victory committee for the Arakan National Party is leading a boat canvassing trip through southern Arakan State as the clock winds down to Election Day, with the group arriving in Gwa Township on the evening of October 26, according to ANP candidates there. 

WFP to lend cellphones to IDPs for mobile money transfers

Myo Thiri Kyaw 26 Oct 2020

The World Food Programme is preparing to lend cellphones free of charge to internally displaced people (IDPs) in eight Arakan State townships so that they can receive monetary donations via Wave Money, a mobile payment service popular in Myanmar. 

Muslim boy wounded by stray gunfire in Minbya Twsp

Hnin Nwe 25 Oct 2020

An 11-year-old boy from Sanbalay (Muslim) village in Arakan State’s Minbya Township was injured by a stray bullet allegedly fired by the Tatmadaw on Sunday, according to village officials. 

Tatmadaw probing deaths of two boys in Buthidaung Twsp: military spox

Aung Htein 24 Oct 2020

The military is investigating the killing of two children amid hostilities between government troops and the Arakan Army earlier this month in Pyinshay (Muslim) village, Buthidaung Township, according to Tatmadaw spokesman Brigadier General Zaw Min Tun.  

Chin human rights group accuses AA of rice extortion

23 Oct 2020

The Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) has claimed that the Arakan Army (AA) forced local villagers in Paletwa Township, Chin State, to sell rice to the ethnic armed group at prices below prevailing market rates.

More details emerge on election inputs provided to UEC

Min Tun 23 Oct 2020

The President’s Office on October 23 shed more light on ministry and departmental inputs provided to the Union Election Commission (UEC) ahead of its decision earlier this month to cancel voting in all or parts of 56 Myanmar townships ahead of the November 8 general election. 

Critics question cancelled elections in ‘peaceful’ Pauktaw, Maungdaw

Min Tun 23 Oct 2020

Cancelled elections in Arakan State’s Pauktaw and Maungdaw townships will disenfranchise more than 225,000 eligible voters, according to the township election subcommissions, as critics dispute the contention that security concerns are preventing the election from being held there. 

AA must stop ‘causing distress’ to civilians: govt spox

Khin Tharaphy Oo 23 Oct 2020

A senior government official has called on the Arakan Army to stop “causing distress to innocent civilians” as the warring sides continue to point fingers over who is responsible for a conflict that has displaced more than 200,000 people and prompted the cancellation of most elections in Arakan State this year. 

Coronavirus informational signboards vandalised in Mrauk-U Twsp

Kyaw Chit 22 Oct 2020

Forty-two signboards containing information about COVID-19 were erected this month in Arakan State’s Mrauk-U Township, where internet access is poor, but a local youth activist says a handful of the boards have already been vandalised.  

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