Fighting continues in Maungdaw Township as junta soldiers fleeing Border Guard Force Battalion No. 5 are being hunted down by the AA, according to the ethnic armed group.

U Ko Ko, chairman of the junta-appointed Union Election Commission (UEC), said that both domestic and foreign organisations will be allowed to monitor the elections that Myanmar’s military regime has scheduled for November 2025.

The AA began attacking junta reinforcements heading to Gwa Township on November 24. The column reportedly included 184 junta soldiers from battalions in Ayeyarwady and Yangon regions.

Farmers in Arakan State’s Rathedaung Township are experiencing a labour shortage during the rice harvesting season, forcing them to adopt a system where workers receive half of the harvested rice as payment.

Arakan youths living in Yangon say difficulties with acquiring citizenship ID cards are hampering their dreams of studying abroad.

Myanmar’s military regime has been desperately defending its Western Command headquarters after the Arakkha Army (AA) defeated all other junta positions in Arakan State’s Ann Township, according to sources close to the AA.

A young man from Panphechaung Village, part of Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township, was killed in a landmine blast on Friday, according to local residents.

The displaced civilians are from Ponnagyun, Sittwe and Rathedaung townships, and the skin disease that has been spreading since early 2024 has not yet been brought under control.

Around 50,000 residents have been forced from their homes in Ann, Taungup and Gwa townships, and around 10,000 of them are struggling with cold weather and food shortages in the forests.

Tuberculosis (TB) cases have surged in Arakan State as the junta’s travel restrictions continue to take a toll on the public healthcare system in the western Myanmar state, according to local health workers.

Junta soldiers from Ann Town, which hosts the Myanmar military's Western Command headquarters, continue to surrender or flee amid an offensive by the Arakkha Army (AA).

Myanmar's military regime has reportedly sentenced Ko Gambari aka Khin Win Maung, a former youth leader of the Arakan National Party (ANP) facing terrorism charges, to 12 years in prison.

A group of about 10 ARSA members entered Hsin Swel Ya Village at around 10 p.m. on December 4, firing guns and beheading 16-year-old Ma Khin Win with a knife.

As the Arakkha Army (AA) offensive moves closer to Gwa Town, the regime is heavily reinforcing its weapons, manpower, and supplies in the southern Arakan State town.

Cases of malaria have been reported in more than 20 villages including Khway Chay Myaung, Panmyaung, Hteinpin, Ahnyintaung, Paletaung, Minphu, Wahtaung and Myin Kan Seik.

The ISP-Myanmar report states that in addressing the current crisis, women are increasingly frugal in preference to other family members, resulting in concerns about nutritional balance and health.

The AA has been attacking the Western Command headquarters since seizing control of Ann Town on Monday.

Sittwe Public Hospital in the Arakan State capital, which is still controlled by the military regime, has run out of TB and HIV medicines due to junta restrictions on the supply of pharmaceuticals to the western Myanmar state.

Two junta jet fighters carried out an aerial bombardment of Taungup's Myoma Market on December 3, burning more than 50 stalls to the ground.