A Muslim cleric in Phokhaung Chaung Village, part of Arakan State’s Buthidaung Township, was injured by a junta artillery strike at about 6 p.m. on October 27, according to family members and the villager administrator.

More than 1.6 million people in Myanmar have been displaced over the past 18 months, since last year’s military coup, according to the Institute for Strategy and Policy-Myanmar.

Forty-six Muslims attempting to leave Arakan State for work opportunities in Malaysia were arrested by regime authorities in Gwa Township on Wednesday morning.

Of four employees from the Department of Agricultural Land Management and Statistics Department in Arakan State’s Kyaukphyu, two have been released, but the two others remain under military detention.

Correspondent students from Buthidaung, Maungdaw, Rathedaung and Pauktaw townships attending Sittwe University say they are unable to return home as Myanmar’s military regime has blockaded both land and water routes in northern Arakan State.

Relatives have not yet been allowed to meet some 20 Arakanese and Muslim detainees who were arrested by the Myanmar military from the central market and jetty in Arakan State’s Buthidaung Township on Sunday.

Hundreds of residents from six villages in northern Arakan State displaced by junta shelling are reportedly facing livelihood hardships.

Thousands of people displaced by fighting between the military and Arakan Army in Arakan State need warmer clothes and blankets for the coming months as seasonal temperatures begin to fall, according to displacement camp officials.

More than 1,600 acres of paddy fields were damaged by strong winds blamed on cyclonic storm Sitrang in Arakan State’s Pauktaw and Manaung townships, according to local farmers.

A mother and father were killed and their two children were injured in the Tuesday shelling of a location where internally displaced people (IDPs) are sheltering in Loikaw Township, Kayah State, according to aid workers.

Myanmar junta troops and the Arakan Army (AA) clashed near Chein Ka Li Village in Arakan State’s Rathedaung Township on Wednesday evening, prompting local villagers to flee their homes.

Arakanese and Muslim students are working together to promote harmony between the two communities in Arakan State. 

Farmers in Arakan State townships are reportedly having difficulty harvesting paddy due to renewed fighting between the Myanmar military and Arakan Army.

The Kachin Independence Organisation/Kachin Independence Army (KIO/KIA) has released a statement on the junta’s aerial bombardment of a KIA-organised event on October 23, saying it will turn sorrow into strength and step up the revolution against Myanmar’s military regime. 

The Buthidaung Township administrator has instructed internally displaced people (IDPs) at camps in Buthidaung town to leave by October 31 or face eviction.

Junta troops searched the Mya Tazaung camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State’s Mrauk-U Township on Tuesday morning.

Locals have fled their homes in Pauktaw Township, Arakan State, following strong winds caused by cyclonic storm Sitrang. Some houses, boats and fish farms were damaged in two villages, according to locals.

The Myanmar military reportedly abducted U San Ko, an Arakanese composer and owner of Arakan Ar Mahn bus gate in Arakan State’s Thandwe, at around noon on October 23.

Myanmar’s military regime detained more than 20 people, including Arakanese and Muslims, in Buthidaung Township on Sunday, according to relatives of the detainees.