Though the fighting has ceased in northern Shan State due to a China-brokered ceasefire, the civil war is intensifying elsewhere, particularly in Kachin and Arakan states, and Sagaing Region.

The paddy harvesting season has arrived, but farmers in Arakan State are reluctant to start farming amid the fighting.

In recent days, the regime has asked K10 million for a boat from and K2 million from each Muslim to send them to Sittwe.

The General Strike Committee (GSC) has withdrawn from a joint statement issued recently by 195 revolutionary groups, civil society organisations and anonymous organisations about the situation in northern Arakan State.

The regime has been increasingly and deliberately targeting civilian populations as it is losing ground in the civil war that followed its February 2021 coup.

The military regime is blocking residents from leaving Thandwe Township, Arakan State, where fighting between its troops and the Arakkha Army (AA) is escalating.

Dozens of Arakanese and Hindu people trapped by the junta blockades in Arakan State’s Maungdaw Township, where military tensions are running high, were reportedly detained on Monday.

Around 60 Khami people from Ingyinmyaing Village in Buthidaung Township fled from Buthidaung to Kyauktaw Township in April following clashes between Myanmar’s military regime and the Arakkha Army (AA).

Though the joint statement did not accuse the AA of arbitrarily arresting and killing Muslims, it did call for a probe into allegations about the arresting and killing of Muslims by AA troops on the ground.

More than 10 military vehicles transported the weapons from the Kanyin Chaung to Border Guard Police Force Battalion No. 5 from May 21-23, sources told DMG.

Thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Tawphyarchaung, a remote area in Arakan State’s Ponnagyun Township, are reportedly in urgent need of shelters, food and healthcare services.

School enrollment for the year 2024-2025 began May 23 in Arakan State’s Sittwe, Taungup, Ann, Manaung, Gwa, Kyaukphyu and Thandwe townships.

Some junta soldiers along with their weapons have managed to flee their camps in Maungdaw, Buthidaung, Ann and Thandwe townships amid fierce fighting between the military and AA.

Around 80 percent of the 200,000 IDPs are Muslims, and the rest are Arakanese people and ethnic minorities.

Heavy rain is predicted in Arakan State for the next three days due to a low pressure system over the Bay of Bengal, the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH) reported.

U Khaing Thukha said no one was living in the district GAD office and only the buildings were damaged by the junta airstrike, with no casualties reported.

Around 1.6 million people have lost access to hospital care in central and northern Arakan State, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) reported on Friday.

Junta artillery attacks and airstrikes killed more than 20 civilians and injured at least 50 across Myanmar during the period from May 15-21, the Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma said in a report.

A local man from Kulabar Village, part of Arakan State’s Kyaukphyu Township, who was seriously injured in a landmine blast, died at the hospital on Thursday evening.