A schoolteacher on duty at a polling station on Election Day has tested positive for COVID-19 in Arakan State’s Kyaukphyu Township, and 34 people who had contact with her have been quarantined, according to the Kyaukphyu Hospital superintendent.

The Arakan Army (AA) has called on the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) led-government and the Tatmadaw to hold by-elections before December 31 in townships where the 2020 general election has not yet been held.   

As of Wednesday evening, the Union Election Commission (UEC) had announced the winners of nearly all of the Hluttaw (parliamentary) seats up for grabs in Arakan State in the November 8 general election.

Myanmar’s Union Election Commission (UEC) has reminded candidates who contested the 2020 general election to submit their election expenditures within 30 days of their respective state/region election subcommission’s announcement of their race’s winner.

The European Union has called for holding by-elections “at the earliest possible” in constituencies where the 2020 general election did not take place on November 8. 

The incumbent Chin ethnic affairs minister for Arakan State from the National League for Democracy (NLD) has been re-elected to the post, beating out seven competitors for the seat, according to the ruling party’s state spokesperson.  

Residents were fleeing to nearby villages on Wednesday after a military column entered Aung Lan Chain village in Arakan State’s Kyaukphyu Township and conducted interrogations of locals beginning at around 7 a.m. on November 11.  

The Arakan State election subcommission’s secretary said statewide there had been only one complaint of voting fraud as of November 11, three days after Election Day. 

Local residents on Kyaukphyu Township’s Maday Island who make a living fishing are finding it difficult to secure their livelihood as security personnel at the Danyawaddy naval base, located near the island, have recently tightened security checks.  

Two women will be sworn in next year as the second and third female members of the Arakan State Parliament in the chamber’s history, according to election tallies released by political parties competing in the state.   

Six people including a 3-year-old baby girl and three other children were injured when artillery shells fell and exploded in and around Ann Township’s Shouk Shone village on November 10, according to locals. 

A new committee led by senior military officers has been set up to hold peace talks with Myanmar’s ethnic armed groups, according to a statement issued by the Tatmadaw on November 9. 

Eight detainees from Ramree Township and its neighbouring environs are not members of the Arakan Army (AA), as has been alleged by the military, family members of the accused say. 

Not a single independent candidate has won a seat in Sunday’s general election in Arakan State, where altogether 18 had contested.   

Security personnel last week arrested a woman sheltering at the Myo U Gaung IDP camp in Mrauk-U Township, Arakan State, with the Tatmadaw True News Information Team alleging in a November 10 statement that she was a fugitive with ties to the Arakan Army (AA). 

Myanmar military personnel have allegedly made off with about 600 rice sacks provided by the government for displaced people in Tin Nyo village, Mrauk-U Township. 

In the aftermath of an anticipated National League for Democracy (NLD) defeat in Arakan State’s Taungup Township, party representatives are pointing to the abduction of its three candidates to explain the outcome.

A COVID-19 patient receiving medical treatment at Arakan State’s Kyaukphyu Hospital died on November 9, according to the hospital’s medical superintendent.

Candidates from the Arakan National Party (ANP) have won all of the constituencies up for election in Taungup Township, which the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) won in Myanmar’s last general election in 2015, according to the Arakanese party.