A child was injured when the Myanmar military’s navy fired artillery shells from the sea near Kyaukphyu Township, Arakan State, according to local sources.

The township’s 50-bed public hospital has been struggling with critical shortages of essential medicines and medical equipment, while junta-imposed restrictions on the transport of medical supplies and road blockades have left emergency and chronic patients in grave danger, according to local sources.

The Myanmar military junta has intensified its airstrikes in recent days on towns controlled by the Chin Brotherhood (CB), according to local sources.

The Myanmar military junta has intensified its air and naval assaults on several parts of southern Arakan State controlled by the Arakan Army (AA), according to local reports.

The Myanmar military regime has continued its series of airstrikes targeting schools and students across multiple regions — including Arakan, Chin, Karen, Sagaing, and Ayeyarwady — according to local reports.

The Arakan Army (AA) said on October 10 that fighting is taking place almost daily at five key strategic locations across Arakan State and adjoining areas of Magway, Bago, and Ayeyarwady regions, as the Myanmar military continues to launch major offensives.

In conflict-torn Arakan State, women are losing out on employment, education, and other vocational training opportunities compared with men, according to a recent report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
 

Departmental staff employees are reportedly urging residents of Arakan State’s Sittwe and Kyaukphyu, which are still under the control of Myanmar’s military regime, to vote in the upcoming junta-sponsored election, saying they do not want to lose their civil rights.
 

Myanmar’s military regime is ramping up offensives in an effort to regain control of territories lost to anti-junta forces across the country.
 

Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) troops have been deployed along the Bangladesh–Arakan border amid fierce clashes between the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) and the Arakan Army (AA), according to Bangladesh-based media outlets.

An indigenous man from Bangladesh’s Naikhongchhari Township has been abducted by Muslim armed groups — the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) and the Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO) — according to the Bangladesh-based news outlet Hill Voice.

Bangladeshi fishermen have reportedly begun attacking coastal guard personnel with weapons, raising new security concerns for fishing communities operating in Arakan’s territorial waters.

Nearly 1,000 children displaced by conflict in Arakan State’s Ann and Kyauktaw townships who have been attending free community schools are now at risk of losing their opportunity to continue studying, according to school administrators.

Muslim armed groups have reportedly launched coordinated attacks against the Arakan Army (AA) in northern Maungdaw, near the Myanmar-Bangladesh border, according to military sources.

Since Myanmar’s military regime recaptured Kyaukme town, it has intensified attacks on the remaining townships held by the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), leading to increasing civilian casualties.
 

Myanmar’s military regime has reportedly arrested 36 locals from Taungup Township, Arakan State, who were leaving for mainland Myanmar to work, and more than 10 ethnic Chin people who accompanied them, on the Taungup-Padaung road.
 

Myanmar’s military regime has reportedly offered to install its MPT mobile network in Arakan State’s Manaung Township, which remains under its control, as elections approach.
 

Daily clashes have continued between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA) near Gote Gyi Village, located along the Ann–Padan road on the Magway side of the Arakan border, according to military sources close to the AA.

In conflict-hit Arakan State, where trade and economic activities remain severely restricted, local entrepreneurs are struggling to keep basic consumer goods industries alive.