The Humanitarian and Development Coordination Office (HDCO) under the United League of Arakan/Arakan Army (ULA/AA) announced that it is working to provide humanitarian assistance to displaced people in southern Arakan State.

A report by the UN Human Rights Council says that at one point up to 30 people per village per month from Muslim villages in Sittwe Township, Arakan State, were being forcibly recruited into the Myanmar military.

The Arakan Army (AA) has been issuing border-crossing documents at checkpoints along the Paletwa-India frontier for local residents, primarily for security purposes.

The Arakan Army (AA) is conducting a series of drug arrests in townships under its control in Arakan State, and some AA police officers have been among those arrested.

Myanmar's military regime is pressuring internally displaced people (IDPs) sheltering in Kwinkauk, Ingapu Township, Ayeyarwady Region, to return home by September 7, according to aid workers and IDPs.

The Arakan Army (AA) has issued a local order requiring those in possession of firearms and military equipment in areas controlled by the ethnic armed group to surrender them within 45 days.

Protests by revolutionary forces and the public against the elections planned by Myanmar's military regime are intensifying across the country.

A man who was recently rearrested at the Kyaukphyu Prison gate after serving time on politically motivated charges was sentenced to an additional 10 years in prison under Section 505(a) of the Penal Code, an incitement provision, on September 1, according to a family member.

Fighting between the Myanmar military and a coalition force led by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in the jade mining hub of Hpakant Township, Kachin State, is intensifying, with the number of local civilians killed and captured on the rise.

A regime airstrike on Mrauk-U, Arakan State, destroyed 42 houses last week, leaving dozens of families and more than 200 people currently struggling to find a place to live.

Myanmar's military regime has arrested 11 local residents after a bomb dropped by a drone landed and exploded near a school last week in Yinsae Village, part of Ayeyarwady's Region Laymyethna Township.

Myanmar junta boss Min Aung Hlaing has told the Chinese government that a railway and deep-sea port project connecting Kunming, China, to Kyaukpyu, Arakan State, are being implemented.

The Arakan Army (AA) coast guard continues to detain Bangladeshi fishermen who encroach by the hundreds into Arakan waters in the Bay of Bengal and Naf River estuary.

Nineteen civilians were killed and 34 injured in Myanmar military artillery shellings and aerial bombardments in Arakan State's Kyaukphyu and Mrauk-U townships during the two weeks from August 14 to 27.

The Rakhine Nationalities Party (RNP) headquarters was opened on August 28 in Kyaukphyu, one of three townships in Arakan State still controlled by Myanmar's military regime.

Some residents of Kyauktaw and Mrauk-U townships in Arakan State are fleeing their homes and migrating to India due to the threat of airstrikes by Myanmar's military regime.

Arakan Army (AA) coast guard forces recently apprehended five fishing boats and more than 30 Bangladeshi nationals for illegally entering Arakan waters, according to local residents.

The BNI-Myanmar Peace Monitor reports that of the 102 townships where Myanmar's military regime has announced that it will hold "phase 1" of the elections, more than 70 percent are experiencing military conflict.

The Lin Yaung Chi Foundation's free schools, which educate more than 2,000 displaced children across three townships in Arakan State, are facing a funding crisis.