Around 400 people, including monks, held a dialogue in Sittwe on March 7 focused on issues of public concern in Arakan State, with the results of the discussion to be submitted to the president.

More than 10,000 people from 38 villages are facing food shortages due to a prohibition on carrying provisions into Dalet village-tract in Ann Township, Arakan State, according to residents.

Food and non-food items donated by the Indian government for people internally displaced (IDPs) by conflict in Arakan State are being distributed in Buthidaung town this month.

The families of six people who were detained by the Tatmadaw while travelling by boat from Kyauktaw to Paletwa have sent a letter to the defence minister demanding that the military release the men. 

One of Arakan State’s most prominent voices in the Union Parliament weighed in on constitutional matters last week as MPs wrapped up a seven-day debate on proposed amendments to the military-drafted charter.

Local party officials have yet to communicate with U Zeyar Min or his captors, about a month after the finance officer for the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Ramree Township, Arakan State, was abducted by unidentified gunmen while on his way home.

Two men from Ai Tin village in Ponnagyun Township, Arakan State, were arrested at the Kyauktan checkpoint on the outskirts of Sittwe at about 5 p.m. on March 5, according to family members of the detainees.

Six out of nine students accused of leading a demonstration last month demanding the restoration of internet access in nine townships of Arakan and Chin states have been charged under Section 19 of the Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession Law at a court in Yangon’s Kamayut Township, according to the Kamayut Police Station.

A child was reportedly killed and four others wounded in a landmine blast near Paung Toke Muslim village in Arakan State’s Mrauk-U Township, according to locals.

The Arakan (Rakhine) Cultural Preservation Committee this year will not be holding the traditional Thingyan festivities that it has previously organized in Sittwe due to clashes in several Arakan State townships over recent months.

The Arakan National Party (ANP) has accepted an offer from the Arakan League for Democracy (ALD) to discuss “the current Arakan political situation”, according to an ALD representative.

A village administrator and a resident of Nayan village in Minbya Township, Arakan State, are missing and have been incommunicado for days, with family members concerned for their whereabouts and well-being.

One man was killed and two people were injured in Bwi Ohne village after they were hit by artillery fire and bombs amid heavy fighting near the Mee Chaung bridge in Paletwa Township, Chin State, locals said.

Two “suspect” Muslims were shot dead by Tatmadaw troops after the pair responded to calls for them to submit to inspection by firing upon the soldiers near Taungpyo village in Arakan State’s Maungdaw Township, the military reported on March 3.

The Arakan National Party has instructed a Yangon Region minister from the party who met Myanmar’s commander-in-chief last month to submit a letter to the party elaborating on their recent discussion, but the party does not plan to discipline him, an ANP official has said.

A 29-year-old patient who had been kept under surveillance and is receiving treatment at Sittwe General Hospital in the Arakan State capital has been found to be suffering from pneumonia, according to the hospital’s superintendent, Dr. Moe Myint Win.

Fourteen male suspects have been arrested after fighting occurred near Myaung Bway village in Mrauk-U Township, Arakan State, according to a March 3 statement issued by the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Services.

Arrangements have been made to allow 54 students sheltering in Buthidaung town’s IDP camps to sit for matriculation exams this year, according to officials at those camps in northern Arakan State.

An artillery shell blast in Kyauktaw Township’s Shwe Pyi village on March 2 seriously wounded a woman there, according to the victim’s family.