More than 500 Rohingya vanished at sea - what happened?

Two boats carrying an estimated 530 Rohingyas have disappeared since leaving Myanmar on 29 June.

500 feared dead after boats capsize in Bay of Bengal

More than 500 people are feared dead after two boats capsized in the Bay of Bengal, the United Nations has said.
KSAT

Myanmar's conflict-torn Rakhine state could face an imminent acute famine, UN report warns

FILE - Rohingya refugees gather near a fence during a government organized media tour, to a no-man's land between Myanmar and Bangladesh, near Taungpyolatyar village, Maung Daw, northern Rakhine State ...
CNN

Myanmar junta suspends aid access to a million people in state devastated by Cyclone Mocha

Myanmar’s ruling junta has suspended humanitarian access to western Rakhine state, where more than a million vulnerable people are in urgent need of aid a month after a powerful cyclone devastated the ...
Daily Sun

Arakan Army preparing to rename Rakhine towns

The Arakan Army in Myanmar is renaming towns like Pauktaw and Minbya to assert Rakhine identity, drawing on rich historical ...
CNN

‘Are we not eating tonight?’ Myanmar’s military junta accused of using hunger as a ‘weapon’ by blocking vital food aid

Khin Mar Cho worries for her 4-year-old son as she struggles to scrape together enough food to feed him in a makeshift displacement camp at a crowded monastery in western Myanmar. Soldiers had stormed ...
Dhaka Tribune

Ethnic groups oppose Rohingya resettlement in Rakhine

Ethnic Rakhine groups have told Myanmar government that they are opposed to Rohingya, who are also an ethnic minority, being resettled in southern Maungdaw in restive Rakhine State, UCA News reported.
UNHCR

Young people in Myanmar's Rakhine State tackle ethnic divisions

On a blue-sky winter’s day in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State, hundreds of people from two neighbouring villages – one populated by ethnic Rakhine people and the other by the minority Rohingya ethnic ...