A junta court sentenced the country’s detained former State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to three more years in prison on Friday over alleged fraud in the 2020 general election, bringing her cumulative prison sentences since being arrested in February 2021 to 20 years so far, with more charges still pending.

Air attacks by Myanmar’s military regime have forced almost all 500 residents of Myeikwa village in Chin State’s Paletwa Township to flee to the Indian border.

The Arakan Army (AA) reportedly ambushed a truck traveling in an area under the control of the Myanmar military’s Western Command in southern Arakan State’s Ann Township on Thursday.

The junta-controlled Myanma Alin newspaper reported on Friday that the regime is trying to reoccupy a regime outpost near the Bangladeshi border that the Arakan Army (AA) seized on August 31. 

The family of a young woman who was stabbed to death last month near the government offices in Sittwe, Arakan State, has demanded that the perpetrator be punished publicly.

The Arakan Army (AA) has alleged that Myanmar military personnel torched a free monastic school, its hostel for students and the dining hall of the monastery compound in Khamaung Seik village, Maungdaw Township, on August 30. 

Clashes have continued for about a month between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA) in Arakan State’s Maungdaw Township and neighbouring Chin State’s Paletwa Township, with the first hostilities exchanged in early August and military tensions running high across other parts of Arakan State as well, AA spokesman U Khaing Thukha said.

The rate of dengue fever infection in Arakan State is increasing due to the poor drainage system, according to the Department of Public Health (DPH).

Healthcare services for internally displaced people (IDPs) at some displacement camps in Arakan State’s Kyauktaw and Ponnagyun townships have gradually weakened, IDPs and camp officials say.

The Arakan Army has occupied a military outpost near Milepost No. 40 on the Myanmar-Bangladesh border in northern Maungdaw Township, Arakan State, the ethnic armed group said in a statement on August 31.

• The United League of Arakan (ULA) issued a statement saying the Myanmar military, which has been suffering since August 13 fighting in Arakan State and in Chin State’s Paletwa Township, has restricted the movement of people and commodities on the Yaychanpyin-Angumaw-Maungdaw road and the Maungdaw-Kyeinchaung road.

The All Arakan Youth Organisations Network (AAYON) on Tuesday called on residents of Arakan State to boycott military-linked products and services.

An education employee was reportedly robbed of more than K3 million near the office of the township education officer in Kyauktaw Township, Arakan State, on Wednesday afternoon.

Fierce clashes broke out between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army in Rathedaung Township, Arakan State, on the evening of August 30, prompting more than 1,000 locals to flee to safer locations.

The Myanmar military on Wednesday carried out air raids against Arakan Army (AA) outposts along the Mt. Wai Lar range in northern Maungdaw Township, Arakan State, according to former state lawmaker U Maung Ohn, who previously represented the township.

Hundreds of local people in Shan State’s Moebye Township were forced to flee to safer locations following clashes between the Myanmar military and anti-regime forces on August 27 and 28, according to residents.

The Arakan State Consumer Affairs Department is reportedly taking steps to sell cooking oil at reduced prices as soaring commodity and fuel costs continue to strain household budgets in one of Myanmar’s poorest regions. 

The prime minister of the National Unity Government said the NUG is among several domestic and international actors that are trying to create favourable conditions for the return of Muslims living in Bangladesh after their violent expulsion from Arakan State in 2016-2017. 

Family members of the victim have called for harsh action against the rapist of a teenage girl who suffers from hearing and speech impairment, and is unable to walk.