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Over a million children amongst the 3.4 million displaced due to continuing violence and extreme weather in the country.

UNICEF’s 2024 humanitarian appeal is currently less than 25 per cent funded, even as the needs grow increasingly urgent.

The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) is reinforcing troops, ammunition and other supplies in the northern Shan State capital, Lashio, despite pressure from China to withdraw from the city.

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> > Decades of sporadic conflict between the military and ethnic rebel groups have left the Southeast Asian country littered with deadly landmines and munitions. But the military's ouster of Aung San Suu Kyi's government in 2021 has turbocharged conflict in the country and *birthed dozens of newer "People's Defence Forces" now battling to topple the military. > > > Anti-personnel mines and explosive remnants of war killed or wounded 1,003 people in Myanmar in 2023, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) said on Wednesday. There were 933 landmine casualties in Syria, 651 in Afghanistan and 580 in Ukraine, the ICBL said in its latest Landmine Monitor report. > > > Myanmar is not a signatory to the United Nations convention that prohibits the use, stockpiling or development of anti-personnel mines. > > > ICBL said it had seen evidence of junta troops forcing civilians to walk in front of its units to "clear" mine-affected areas. > > > All sides in the fighting were using landmines "indiscriminately," the United Nations Children's Fund said in April. Rebel groups have told AFP they also lay mines in some areas under their control. > > > The ICBL said at least 5,757 people had been casualties of landmines and explosive remnants of war across the world in 2023. Of those, 1,983 were killed and 3,663 wounded. Civilians made up 84 percent of all recorded casualties, it said.

A six-propeller drone thought to belong to regime forces or regime-sponsored militias hit a group of vans travelling the Shwebo-Myitkyina road in Kanbalu Township, leaving four civilians dead and at least eight injured

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Sources familiar with the matter said MNDAA commander Peng Daxun (aka Peng Daren) has been in China since his meeting with Chinese special envoy to Myanmar Deng Xijun in Yunnan Province’s Kunming in late October.

MNDAA leader was not allowed to return to Myanmar and has been under house arrest in a hotel in Kunming owned by the Peng family since then.

Hopang, a small town in northern Shan State, has undergone dramatic social and economic changes since falling into the hands of the United Wa State Army (UWSA) early this year. Residents are complaining of high taxes and “Sinicization” under the UWSA administration, with a proliferation of casinos, massage parlors and brothels.

China has reportedly proposed the establishment of a joint security company with Myanmar’s regime to ensure the safety of Chinese projects and personnel in Myanmar.

The security company will apparently handle the import of weapons and special equipment, including communications devices and restricted tools.

[The security company creates] the potential arrival of Chinese troops in Myanmar through the proposed security company.

Ten people were killed after two rival armed groups opened fire on each other at a bar in the Kachin State town of Mohnyin on Tuesday, according to a local source.

Chinese authorities lifted bans on transporting trade goods through one of three crossing points in Muse, northern Shan State on Monday, while enforcing stricter embargoes at the other two crossings, according to haulers and traders involved in border commerce.

Eleven civilians were killed and a further 11 were wounded when a junta airstrike hit a tea shop in Naungcho (Naunghkio) Town in northern Shan State, at 2:30 pm on 12 November 2024.

The Lan San teashop, which was in the Naungcho Myoma Market in downtown Naungcho Town, was hit by a bomb dropped by a junta aircraft at 2:30 pm on 12 November. The teashop was a popular place and located in a bustling area often crowded with passenger vehicles.

This is a rare glimpse into the Chin resistance fighting the military in the Northwest of Myanmar.

The United Wa State Army (UWSA) has begun organizing a militia group in Hopang Township, northern Shan State to coordinate with its newly established administration there. This comes after the township was seized by the Brotherhood Alliance early this year and subsequently handed over to the UWSA.

He also pointed out that though Hopang and Panlong were initially handed over to it(Wa State Army) by the Brotherhood Alliance, the UWSA has only been able to establish its administration in the towns under an official agreement with the regime. “Otherwise, the town would be bombed!” he said.

The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) says large-scale ruby mining in Mogoke, Mandalay Region, will be suspended until it benefits the community.

[Although] Individual [miners] have been allowed to mine in Mogoke since September to support their livelihoods, said Lwei Yay Oo.

Military-owned Myanma Economic Holdings Limited (MEHL) and other firms with links to the army have controlled Mogoke’s mines, which account for 90 percent of Myanmar’s ruby production.

Authorities in the eastern Indian state of Manipur are warning thousands of Myanmar nationals who fled conflict in the Sagaing region that they have one month to return home, despite the ongoing threat of junta airstrikes that wiped out many of their villages.

Sagaing has seen some of the fiercest fighting between junta troops and the armed opposition since the military‘s February 2021 coup d’etat, which has forced around 5,000 residents of the region to seek shelter in neighboring India’s Manipur state.