When a troop of Tatmadaw entered Nwayonedaung village in Buthidaung Township on Monday night, about seven soldiers entered a home at about 8 p.m and took away beer and other goods from a shop,

The 13 people who have been detained in Sittwe prison to face trial in Kyauktaw township court for unlawful association charges could not attend a court hearing on Monday due to security issues,

Two civilians from a village in Kyauktaw Township have received serious injuries due to the explosion of an artillery shell that slammed into their house on the afternoon of April 1, according to aid volunteers.

As international NGOs supporting communities throughout Rakhine State, we express our deep concern with the continued fighting between the Myanmar Security and the Arakan Army Forces.

The Arakan Army has invited correspondents to collect firsthand information on the battlefield in Rakhine State, said Khiang Thukha, the information officer of the AA.

The Tatmadaw detained 15 villagers including a Thayetpyin village administrator on January 13 and then released 13 of them. But the village administrator U Maung Tun Hlaing and a villager U Maung Kyaw Win

“In the past few days, over 300 refugees were added to the camp. We now are mainly concerned with food supplies”, said U Kyaw Than, administrator for Zedi Daung village.

Women from a village in Buthidaung Township were forcefully taken by the military this afternoon, according to Member of Parliament for Buthidaung Township.

An early morning shooting of light and heavy weapon in a village in Mrauk-U Township on Friday left one dead and another four seriously injured.

The number of migrant workers in Maungdaw Township’s resettlement areas has been increasing, and most of them are from Ayeyarwady, Bago and Yangon Regions as well as Myanmar’s administrative city Nay Pyi Taw.

Senior monks form a township monk committee have requested Rakhine State chief minister and commander of the western command to halt the positioning of military forces at a hill in Kyauktaw town.

Not all of them are in refugee camps, some were trapped in their villages. Although relief aid have been providing for IDPs, about 8000 IDPs could not get food because their area is difficult to access on security reason. 

Ongoing clashes between the Tatmadaw and AA have been intensifying in Rakhine State’s six townships, increasing the number of IDPs in the region. 

The Tatmadaw troops fired heavy weapons into the village from Yangon-Sittwe road, said U Aung Thein Hlaing, the owner of the house. 

A shell landed near a village clinic in Buthidaung Township on Monday evening, injuring a teacher.

More than 60 percent of village administrators from Mrauk-U Township who have tendered their resignation are going to back their offices.

The number of displaced people taking refuge has reached more than 500 in Buthidaung town following the deadly shooting in Si Daung village on the night of March 21.

A ferry man from a village in Rathedaung Township was shot dead on Monday morning on the way home to his village after he ferried passengers, according to villagers.

Inspector Kyaw Kyaw Hla was shot twice in a restaurant near the Tatmadaw’s Supply and Transport Battalion in the north of Tin Nyo village and he died at Mrauk-U hospital, a villager of Tin Nyo told the DMG.