Since clashes between the Tatmadaw and the AA broke out on Tuesday morning near Sinthe village in Ponnagyun Township, local residents have fled to safety, the village administrator U Maung Chit Hlaing told DMG.

Two young villagers from Mrauk-U Township were detained and their families could not meet with them or have any kind of contact with the detainees so they are concerned about their welfare.

The Arakan Front Party (AFP) has announced it will employ the concept of “national politics” according to Dr Aye Maung’s directive when the party undertakes activities centered in Sittwe, capital of Arakan State.

Eight people who have been suspected of being AA members were arrested near Waythali village in Mrauk-U Township, they were sent to Kyauktaw Myoma police station for interrogation, according to the Office of Commander-in-Chief of Defense Services.

A tugboat belonging to the Myanmar Navy that anchored near Sat Yoe Kya creek in Sittwe Town was attacked by the AA on Saturday morning, two soldiers were killed and another soldier was injured, according to a statement made by the Tatmadaw.

A man from a village in Ponnagyun Township received severe injuries after he had stepped on a landmine yesterday morning, according to officials from the Rakhine Ethnics Congress (REC).

Amyotha Hluttaw MP Daw Htoo May filed a complaint at the Myanmar Press Council on Friday because photos of hers were used in a book titled “Battles the AA Fought in Arakan State and History of the AA” written by Thaung Wai Oo.

The Myanmar government has blocked Internet access in eight townships in Arakan State where ongoing conflicts are occurring between the Tatmadaw and the AA. The ban went into effect on 21 June.

“People from the Road Construction Company and the Department of Rural Development said they would inspect the damaged area today, but they did not show up. The road is wrecked as you can all plainly see,”

To restore Myanmar’s coastal areas that have been destroyed due to the ineffectiveness of the coastal management under successive governments, concerned authorities are carrying out a project to preserve the coastal areas

Five villagers from Aukthakan village in Mrauk-U Township including a man in his late sixties, who were arrested by the Tatmadaw on 29 March, have been charged under the Counter-Terrorism Law, according to their families.

More than 600 villagers from Shwe Kyan village in Minbya Township fled from their homes because of an air strike from one of the Tatmadaw’s helicopter gunships on Friday during the intensified clashes between the Tatmadaw and the AA near the village.

The number of dengue fever patients in Arakan State this year has reached to 342, but there is no report of any deaths, according to Dr Thiha, deputy head of the Department of Public Heath in Arakan State.

The cultivation process for monsoon paddy has been delayed in some townships in Arakan State due to the ongoing conflicts in the region, monsoon paddy cannot be grown on nearly 90,000 acres this year,

Villagers said that they suffer from the reservoir construction project because 17.10 acres of farmland owned by 13 farmers and 15 acres of land of community forestry in Bawdigone village were commandeered to build the reservoir.

The government built over 100 houses for the families who took shelters in their relatives’ homes when their houses were burnt during the violence in 2017 while some of them fled to Bangladesh.

Eight detained people from Kyauktan village in Rathedaung Township have been charged at Sittwe district court against the Counter Terrorism law, according to Sittwe District Lawyers’ Association.

“The Myanmar Army came to the monastery we are staying at and arrested us. They tortured us and forced us to confess to being members of the Arakan Army. We are not members of the AA.

A meeting on war refugees was held among officials from the Supporting Committee for Peace and Stability in Arakan State, the regional government and Arakan State parliament on 19 June at the State Cabinet’s Guesthouse in Sittwe.