News About Myanmar

Maung Sar Ga Narinjara, October 10, 2026 Senior leaders from the United League of Arakan/Arakan Army (ULA/AA) and the Steering Council for the Emergence of a Federal Democratic Union (SCEF) convened for a two-hour virtual meeting on October 8. Formed on March 30, 2026, the SCEF serves as an alliance-based coordination platform uniting Myanmar’s anti-junta resistance under a single political, military, and institutional framework. According to an October 10 announcement by the

Authorities in Myanmar have been ordered to aggressively fulfil the military's recruitment quotas, leading to corruption, extortion and abductions You do not stay out after dark if you're young and able-bodied in Hpa-An, the capital of Myanmar's southern Karen state. In recent months this has become conventional wisdom. But Zaw Min has no choice. "I worry, but I have to go out to work," says the 26-year-old tuk tuk driver, who asked that his real name be omitted out of fear f

Residents in Ponnagyun Township, Arakan State, carry out search-and-rescue operations after two airstrikes hit a displacement camp sheltering civilians on Oct. 4. (Credit: AA) At least seven civilians were killed and 17 others were injured in airstrikes carried out by the Myanmar Air Force on Pauktaw Township’s Sin Ein village in Arakan State on Saturday. Wai Hun Aung, a humanitarian aid worker in territory controlled by the Arakan Army (AA), told DVB that five civilians were

A Myanmar delegation led by Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun, Permanent Representative of Myanmar to the UN, at the opening of the 81st Session of the General Assembly in New York on Sept. 8, 2026. (Credit: PMM) As the United Nations General Assembly began its 81st session, Myanmar’s Permanent Representative to the U.N. Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun has affirmed his commitment to retain the country’s seat at the headquarters in New York, dismissing ongoing efforts by the regime in Naypyidaw

The aftermath of the junta's airstrike on Kyauktaw's Indian Market on September 28. Photo: AA Info Desk DMG Newsroom 10 October 2026, Kyauktaw Local trade, commerce, and the flow of goods have slowed drastically across Kyauktaw Township, Arakan State, following the military junta's deadly aerial bombardment of the town's Indian Market, according to local residents and traders. More than 10 days have passed since the Indian Market was shuttered in the wake of the airstrike. Me

DMG Newsroom 10 October 2026, Yangon Arakan State has the highest level of multidimensional poverty in Myanmar, with more than two-thirds of its population facing overlapping hardships involving healthcare, education and basic living conditions, according to a new United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report. The report, Layers of Deprivation: Multidimensional Poverty in Myanmar, released on October 8, estimates that 68.4 percent of Arakan’s population, approximately 1.