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21 November 2012 - 10:36amThe western state of Rakhine, Myanmar is nestled between the border with Bangladesh and the Rakhine Mountains. Inter-communal violence in Rakhine in June and October led to some 115,000 people fleeing their homes in fear and taking shelter in some of the newest IDP camps in the world. The clashes... -
4 September 2012 - 3:45pmOn World Humanitarian Day this year (19 August) we celebrated the most basic principle of humanitarian work: People Helping People. For inspiration, and to remind everyone of the extraordinary things ordinary people are capable of doing, we asked professional aid workers to tell us a story about someone... -
27 July 2012 - 11:12amLast year, OCHA ranked Myanmar as the most at-risk Asia-Pacific country. It is vulnerable to devastating natural disasters, poverty and conflicts. Despite being a resource-rich country with a strong agricultural base, its population of over 50 million people are among the poorest in the world. Years of... -
3 April 2012 - 9:32pmTwo UN convoys have delivered emergency relief supplies to people displaced by conflict in areas of Myanmar’s northern Kachin State. The supplies, including a month-long ration of food, water-purification tablets, rehydration salts and basic medicine, have been delivered to some 3,300 people. Another... -
31 March 2011 - 11:17amOn 24 March 2011, an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 on the Richter Scale and 10 km depth struck the southern parts of Shan State in the East of the Union of Myanmar (population: 3,870,921) — approximately 300 miles southeast of Mandalay seismological observatory. It was recorded at 20:29:30 hrs Myanmar...
