Rakhine faces a hunger catastrophe: Aid groups

Rakhine state, a western coastal region that has suffered years of conflict and ethnic violence mostly targeting the Rohingya Muslim minority, is now facing an “alarming” hunger crisis due to a “deadly combination of conflict, blockades, and funding cuts,” according to the United Nations’ World Food Programme.

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At a high-level UN conference in New York on Myanmar’s minority groups on Tuesday, the United States and Britain announced that they would provide $96 million in further assistance to support the Bangladesh refugee camps that house over a million Rohingya who fled Rakhine.

Myanmar has been in crisis since the military seized power in 2021 and brutally cracked down on protests, prompting a nationwide armed uprising and reigniting a simmering conflict in Rakhine between the junta and a powerful armed group, the Arakan Army.