Myanmar crops suffered less damage from monsoon flooding this year, U Myo Tint Tun, deputy permanent secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation said. Myo Tint Tun claimed that although 728,000 hectares of farmland were affecte
An estimated 45,000 people have been displaced by flooding across Myanmar in recent weeks, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The areas most heavily affected by the flooding are Kachin, Rakhine, Mon a
A senior UN official has urged the Myanmar government to improve access for aid workers in conflict-torn Rakhine State. It is estimated that there are around 33,000 displaced people in the region. According to a Reuters article, Ursula Mueller, a UN