Aid Groups Warn Of Impending Hunger Catastrophe In Myanmar’s War

The United Nations’ World Food Programme said Myanmar ’s Rakhine state—a western coastal region long scarred by conflict and ethnic violence against the Rohingya Muslim minority—is now facing an “alarming” hunger crisis driven by a “deadly combination of conflict, blockades, and funding cuts.”

At a high-level U.N. conference in New York on Myanmar’s minority groups on Tuesday, the United States and Britain announced that they would provide $96 million in further assistance to support the Bangladesh refugee camps that house over a million Rohingya who fled Rakhine.

Neither Medicine Nor Food

After Ajib Bahar’s six-month-old son fell sick last year in Myanmar’s war-torn Rakhine state, the 38-year-old Rohingya mother said she had no medicine or food to give him. The boy died in her arms