Bangladeshi fishermen have reportedly begun attacking coastal guard personnel with weapons, raising new security concerns for fishing communities operating in Arakan’s territorial waters.

Nearly 1,000 children displaced by conflict in Arakan State’s Ann and Kyauktaw townships who have been attending free community schools are now at risk of losing their opportunity to continue studying, according to school administrators.

Muslim armed groups have reportedly launched coordinated attacks against the Arakan Army (AA) in northern Maungdaw, near the Myanmar-Bangladesh border, according to military sources.

Since Myanmar’s military regime recaptured Kyaukme town, it has intensified attacks on the remaining townships held by the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), leading to increasing civilian casualties.
 

Myanmar’s military regime has reportedly arrested 36 locals from Taungup Township, Arakan State, who were leaving for mainland Myanmar to work, and more than 10 ethnic Chin people who accompanied them, on the Taungup-Padaung road.
 

Myanmar’s military regime has reportedly offered to install its MPT mobile network in Arakan State’s Manaung Township, which remains under its control, as elections approach.
 

Daily clashes have continued between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA) near Gote Gyi Village, located along the Ann–Padan road on the Magway side of the Arakan border, according to military sources close to the AA.

In conflict-hit Arakan State, where trade and economic activities remain severely restricted, local entrepreneurs are struggling to keep basic consumer goods industries alive.

Amid escalating armed conflict in Kachin State’s Hpakant Township, both the Myanmar military and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) are reported to have increasingly detained local residents.

Ethnic armed organizations (EAOs), including the Three Brotherhood Alliance, currently control about 50 percent of the Mandalay-Muse trade route — one of Myanmar’s most important commercial links with China — according to the Institute for Strategy and Policy-Myanmar (ISP-Myanmar).

Muslim advocacy organizations abroad have called for self-determination in Arakan State, asserting Rohingya and other Muslims should have the right to self-governance.

Heavy clashes have broken out between the Arakan Army (AA) and the Muslim armed group ARSA (Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army) in northern Maungdaw Township, near the Bangladesh border, according to local residents.

Myanmar Women in Media (MWiM), Burmese Women’s Union (BWU) and Sisters 2 Sisters issued a statement on October 3 urging authorities and armed groups to respect the freedom of expression and safety of media workers.
 

Voter lists for the upcoming junta-sponsored elections are being posted at ward and village administrator offices and election commission offices in 102 townships still under the control of Myanmar’s military regime.
 

An estimated one in four youths across Myanmar, nearly 4 million people, are unemployed and their futures are on hold, according to a report released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on October 2.
 

More than 200 Arakanese and allied civil society groups have sent an open letter to the United Nations and international diplomats, urging official recognition of the United League of Arakan/Arakan Army (ULA/AA) as the legitimate government of Arakan State.

Myanmar’s military regime is continuously attacking towns, and has recaptured some, along the Mandalay-Muse road, a major Chinese trade route controlled by the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) in northern Shan State.
 

The villagers, nine men and two women, were arrested by the military regime on charges of supplying food to the Arakan Army (AA) and the People’s Defence Forces (PDF).
 

More than 200 diaspora, community and rights groups from Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, the US and Europe have issued an open letter calling on the United Nations and member state ambassadors to take "urgent, principled and impartial" action on multiple crises affecting Arakan State and adjoining Bangladeshi border areas.