Aid Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
Burmese authorities have agreed to allow the United Nations to resume distribution of food in northern Rakhine State which was suspended for two months, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
Unrest in the Muslim-majority north of Arakan State is taking a “terrible toll” on children, the UN children’s agency said as it called for full access to the region.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
Burma is allowing the first food deliveries for more than four weeks to the troubled north of Arakan State, amid an ongoing military lockdown of the area.
The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) in Burma is facing a funding shortfall of $51 million to meet all the needs till the end of 2016.
Feature Lead Story Migrants Issues News Rohingya
After making a fraught voyage across the ocean, 16-year-old Ismail – now working in Kuala Lumpur – has fared better than many other Rohingya refugees.
Irrawaddy Division Lead Story News Society
“I always dreamt about a project to provide food to families at an affordable price, for no profit,” Dr Nanda Win told DVB.
Thousands of refugees at camps in northern Kachin State are facing food shortages since the state government blocked aid deliveries at the end of October.
Aid Lead Story Mandalay Division News
WFP says it has cut its humanitarian aid to displaced persons in Meikhtila. BBC Burmese reports that it will further cut rice rations by 20 percent across the country.
Development Lead Story News Politics Uncategorized
Coinciding with Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida’s visit to Burma this week, Japan has announced 1.6 billion yen (US$16m) in support for UN programmes in Burma.
The UN and other international agencies have intensified their involvement in Burma’s fight to eradicate malnutrition. Children are the focus of multi-layered efforts to improve on poor recent figures.
An American citizen working for the UN’s World Food Programme was reportedly stabbed in neck last week while walking in downtown Rangoon
Report finds evidence that the thousands of Kachin war victims not being supported by the UN are in desperate need of aid
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