The head of Padin, a Muslim village in Maungdaw Township, Arakan State, was released by a group of kidnappers on Friday, more than two weeks after he was taken from his home in the middle of the night.

Civil war has intensified in Myanmar after the military seized power, the three members of the Northern Alliance — the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), Arakan Army (AA) and Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) — said in a statement on September 4. 

Ferryboat services in Arakan State, most of which temporarily suspended operations in an effort to help curb the spread of Covid-19, will resume route-running next week.

Patrols are being conducted to protect wild elephants along the Arakan (Rakhine) Yoma Elephant Range, the only elephant sanctuary in Arakan State, in cooperation with residents of villages around the sanctuary, according to a local conservationist. 

Dr. Khin Khin Gyi, director of the Health Awareness Division of the Public Health Department under the Ministry of Health, has warned that the coronavirus’s Delta variant now present in Myanmar is highly contagious and more likely to result in family infections.

Residents of Samee town in Paletwa Township, Chin State, have faced food shortages as a road used to provision the town has been blocked, according to locals.

The Karen National Union (KNU) on September 3 reiterated its commitment to fight against military dictatorship together with any organisations that oppose the Tatmadaw coup of February 1.

The Nay Pu Khan camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Kyauktaw town, Arakan State, is in need of food and clothes, according to residents of the government-built camp.

Herbal plant therapies and other traditional medicine practices may help to treat Covid-19, said the military regime’s health minister, Dr. Thet Khaing Win.

The Charity Youths Organization and Maramargyi Youth Network, two local charitable groups, on Friday donated Covid-19 preventive equipment (PPE) and food supplies to 400 families in the Arakan State capital Sittwe who are facing livelihood hardships amid the pandemic.

A rehabilitation committee has called on the local government to clear landmines and rebuild the houses of the residents of Tinma village, Kyauktaw Township, so that they can safely return home.

Cows from some villages in Manaung Township, Arakan State, are suffering from skin disease, according to cattle farmers.

The Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) signed by several ethnic armed groups is null and void since the military seized power in a coup on February 1, the KNU Concerned Group said on September 2. 

Family members and officials from the Arakan Students’ Union say that as the case of four Arakanese students who have been on trial for nearly a year continues to be delayed, their educations are unfairly at stake. 

A village official was shot dead and two others were wounded in an attack by gunmen in the Pantawpyin Muslim village of Arakan State’s Maungdaw Township in the early hours of September 2.

The Myittar Yeik orphanage, a refuge for children who have lost their parents due to fighting in Arakan State that is located in Kam Htaung Gyi town, Myebon Township, is in need of support.

A stay-at-home order was imposed in Arakan State’s Gwa Township on August 25 in an attempt to control the spread of Covid-19, but the virus infection rate in the township has not dropped for about a week now.

Fifteen people in Myanmar have been identified as having contracted the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus, the junta-controlled Ministry of Health said in a statement on August 31.

U Hla Thein, the information officer and attorney-general of the Arakan State military government, wrote on his Facebook page that the government is working to drop some cases filed under the Counter-Terrorism Law in Arakan State.