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Opinion Papers
Muslim IDPs in Sittwe face hardships due to food aid reductions
Source: Development Media Group
Muslim internally displaced people living in camps in Sittwe Township in Arakan State are facing growing livelihood difficulties as food assistance has been reduced or cut since March.
Healing Without Borders: Rohingya Health Care Access
Source: The Borgen Project | By Anisa Begum
Rohingya doctors had to flee Myanmar but cannot legally practice in Bangladesh, instead working as interpreters or camp administrators while refugees suffer critical doctor shortages. Cox’s Bazar camps have more than 1 million residents with inadequate medical coverage.
In the Rohingya refugee camps, we really want you to keep the gas running
Source: The Guardian | By Ajas Khan
Aid cuts mean the ethnically-cleansed refugees from Myanmar face a return to cooking over toxic flames, or keeping children out of school to spend all day scouring for firewood
Ex-Military, Police Officers Fill Chief Minister Posts in Junta’s New Govt
Source: The Irrawaddy
The nominees were approved on Monday without debate or dissent in the regime’s rubber-stamp regional and state legislatures.
Min Aung Hlaing Names Cabinet Dominated by Military Figures
Source: The Irrawaddy
Myanmar coup leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing—who was elected president by the regime-installed Union Parliament on April 3—has formed 31 ministries for his pseudo-civilian government