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[Series] Living in Myanmar: Renewed fighting in Rakhine leads Rohingya to live in constant fear

Posted on 10 September 2024 (11 September 2024) by abubaker

Since the 2021 military takeover of Myanmar, people across the country have faced relentless challenges. Clashes between armed groups have erupted countrywide, impacting people’s everyday lives. In this second part of this two-part series by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Rohingya people talk about the life-threatening humanitarian situation in Rakhine state, where fighting between […]

[Series] Living in Myanmar: “The day we lost everything”

Posted on 5 September 2024 (5 September 2024) by abubaker

Since the military takeover in 2021, Myanmar has faced relentless challenges. Clashes between the military, armed groups and ethnic minority groups have erupted nationwide, with far-reaching consequences. “Before the 2021 military takeover, there were five tuberculosis (TB) laboratories, now, only one remains operational.” MSF staff member, Aung San TB Hospital in Yangon This series brings […]

Rohingya: “Dying together is better than this suffering”

Posted on 23 August 2024 (11 September 2024) by

This article was originally publishing on Globe and Mail. “It would be an honour if a bomb killed all of us together, so we don’t have to suffer anymore. Dying together is better than this suffering.” These were the heartbreaking words a Rohingya man shared with my Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) colleagues in […]

Rohingya: Trapped and forgotten; where can people seek safety?

Posted on 21 August 2024 (22 August 2024) by abubaker

As Rohingya become increasingly trapped by raging conflict in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, those who cannot pay their way across the border into Bangladesh are being left without protection or assistance. “We heard explosions, gunfire and people screaming,” says Ruhul, describing the moment when his township, Buthidaung, was attacked on the evening of May 17. “My […]

Bangladesh: MSF sees severe spike in arrivals of war-wounded Rohingya from Myanmar

Posted on 9 August 2024 (9 August 2024) by

Escalating numbers of Rohingya people with violence-related injuries have crossed the border into Bangladesh over the past week, says Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), indicating the worsening humanitarian crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. In the four days leading up to Aug. 7, MSF teams in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, treated 39 people for violence-related injuries. […]

Myanmar: MSF teams face major obstacles providing medical care to communities in Rakhine state

Posted on 16 July 2024 (17 July 2024) by abubaker

This June 2024, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was forced to indefinitely suspend its medical humanitarian activities in northern Rakhine following the extreme escalation of conflict and burning down of MSF’s office in Buthidaung Township. While in some townships in the central part of Rakhine MSF has been able to maintain a minimum level […]

Myanmar: MSF suspends its medical activities in northern Rakhine state

Posted on 27 June 2024 (27 June 2024) by abubaker

The extreme escalation of conflict, indiscriminate violence, and severe restrictions on humanitarian access in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, have forced Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend its medical humanitarian activities in the townships of Rathedaung, Buthidaung and Maungdaw. MSF ran 14 mobile clinics in northern Rakhine providing essential medical services to all communities, […]

Myanmar: “With township hospitals shut, where will people go?”

Posted on 17 April 2024 (17 April 2024) by abubaker

Nimrat Kaur, Project Coordinator for northern Rakhine, Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). She arrived in the project just before Cyclone Mocha hit last year on May 14, 2023 and has seen first-hand the challenges faced by people living there. Now leaving Myanmar, Nimrat wants to share her experience and that of her colleagues, […]

A Canadian commitment to assist displaced Rohingya in Myanmar, Bangladesh and beyond is needed now more than ever

Posted on 22 February 2024 (22 March 2024) by

More than three years since a military coup in Myanmar led to a surge in conflict across the country, the United Nations estimates that almost two million people have been internally displaced by the ongoing violence, while thousands more have fled to neighbouring countries. In Rakhine State – an area in the west of Myanmar […]