News About Myanmar

Narinjara News, December 26, 2025 Two separate fires have been reported in the Rohingya Muslim refugee camp No. 4 and another camp, Kutu Palong, located in the Madhurchhara area of the Rajapalaung constituency, Okiya township, Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh, according to TTN. The blaze completely destroyed the entire healthcare facility situated in D-block of refugee camp No. 4, causing extensive damage. A fire started at approximately 5 am on Friday and was contained by 7:

Reuters/Bdnews24.com, December 27/2025 The country is grappling with one of the most severe humanitarian crisis in Asia, driven by the intensifying civil war and repeated natural disasters Myanmar heads to the polls on Sunday as it battles a civil war that has ravaged parts of the country as well as one of Asia's worst humanitarian crises. Already one of Southeast Asia's poorest countries, Myanmar has been hammered by a conflict triggered by a 2021 coup in which the military

Narinjara News, December 26, 2025 A woman who was displaced in Thandwe, a town in the southern district of Rakhine state, lost her life on Christmas Day due to an airstrike by the junta. Local sources indicate that a junta jet fighter released a bomb over the village of Wra Shay Ywa in Thandwe Township. The individual who passed away has been identified as 55-year-old Daw Naw Say Ray Paw, a displaced individual, as reported by APM news. On December 25 at 12:48 am, the junta

YANGON—Myanmar’s junta said on Friday it will lift a curfew imposed in Yangon since its 2021 coup, just days before the start of elections it touts as a return to normality. The military staged a 2021 putsch ousting Myanmar’s elected government and sparking massive pro-democracy protests in cities nationwide. As security forces battled to put down the demonstrators, the junta enforced a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the largest city of Yangon, home to around seven million people.

Myanmar’s military regime will hold the first phase of its election on December 28, almost five years since the coup. The junta announced the election will be held in three phases: in 102 townships on Sunday, across 100 townships on January 11, and in 63 townships on January 25. The election will skip 56 townships where it lacks control, and no arrangements have been announced for the remaining nine.

While Myanmar’s military regime has invited its international allies and other autocratic governments to observe its election, it has barred independent domestic monitoring groups. Local civil society organizations played a key role in past elections, but many are now in hiding or have had their monitoring applications rejected for lack of official registration. One election observer told The Irrawaddy that in previous elections, groups were formed and registered with the ele