Thai police say the latest violence was triggered when Karen groups launched an attack against Myanmar troops. Fighting has broken out between the Myanmar military and armed ethnic groups near a vital trade hub near the Thai border, according to Thailand’s government and media reports. Witnesses on the Thai and Myanmar sides of the border …
Myanmar security services shot down seven drones over the military-built capital Naypyidaw on Thursday, the junta said, in what appeared to be a rare attack on the junta’s centre of power by its opponents. Issued on: 04/04/2024 – 11:49 2 min The military’s ouster of Aung San Suu Kyi’s government in 2021 sparked renewed fighting …
An adult male Hoolock tianxing – credit Peng-Fei Fan, released to the press. From the Far East comes fantastic news for species conservation after new populations of the gorgeous ‘Skywalker’ gibbon, known to science for only 6 years, were recently found living in the politically chaotic nation of Myanmar. Also called the hoolock gibbon, this …
Issued on: 16/02/2024 – 11:28Modified: 16/02/2024 – 11:32 Our reporter Constantin Simon managed to secretly enter Myanmar, where he filmed the fighting between the rebels and the ruling junta. He also followed a rebel commander. FRANCE 24 brings you his exclusive 25-minute report. Three years ago in Myanmar, on February 1, 2021, the military staged …
A number of photos and videos that circulated on social media and were picked up by pro-democracy media outlets show the aftermath of an air strike on the village of Ka Nan, in the west of Myanmar on January 7, 2024. While the state television outlet claimed that reports of the air strike were “fake …
On February 1, 2021, a military coup in Myanmar sparked widespread nonviolent protests that quickly turned into an armed uprising after the military responded with brutal force. Ethnic armed organisations fighting for autonomy along the country’s borders also joined the anti-coup groups in a war, which has since reached an unprecedented scale in Myanmar’s history. …
Mizoram, India – “Why are you screaming? You are a refugee,” a nurse told 26-year-old Jamie* as she struggled with an exceptionally painful childbirth at a hospital in India’s northeastern state of Mizoram. A few hours later, amid her agony, Jamie’s baby Sophia was born – joining a growing group of other stateless babies born …
Ethnic minority rebels fighting Myanmar’s military junta said they had seized a key trading post on the northern frontier, across the border from where China’s military was conducting exercises to improve combat readiness and emergency response. Issued on: 27/11/2023 – 11:55 2 min A month of intense fighting between Myanmar’s ruling military and an alliance …
Almost 50,000 people have been displaced by fighting in northern Myanmar after an alliance of ethnic armed groups launched an offensive against the military two weeks ago, the United Nations said Friday. Issued on: 10/11/2023 – 07:01 3 min Fighting has raged for two weeks across northern Shan state near the Chinese border, in what …
The number of people displaced from their homes worldwide is estimated to have exceeded 114 million, the United Nations said Wednesday – a record figure. Issued on: 25/10/2023 – 22:06 2 min The main drivers in the first half of 2023 were the conflicts in Ukraine, Sudan, Myanmar and the Democratic Republic of Congo; a …