Arakan State saw the highest number of civilian deaths linked to armed conflict nationwide last year, according to the Myanmar Institute for Peace and Security (MIPS).

A young man from Chet Phaut village in Taungup Township, Arakan State, was arrested by the Tatmadaw more than a month ago, but with no information yet made available as to his circumstances, family members say they are worried about him.

A special Court of Inquiry team has been established to review events at northern Arakan State’s Chutpyin and Maung Nu villages that occurred in August 2017, when terrorist attacks by Muslim militants were met with a brutal counter-insurgency campaign. 

Clashes between government forces and ethnic armed group signatories to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) are not of serious concern, the vice chair of the Union-level Joint Monitoring Committee (JMC-U) insisted at a committee meeting on July 7. 

Supplemental agricultural lending to help offset challenges posed by COVID-19 has begun in six Arakan State townships, but some farmers say they have not yet received the loans.

The Tatmadaw True News Information Team has said that the military will bring Counter-Terrorism Law charges against three men recently arrested near the Kisapanadi Bridge in Kyauktaw Township, Arakan State.

Parts of a male corpse were found on the bank of the Kaladan River near Kisapanadi Bridge in Kyauktaw Township, Arakan State, at about 8 a.m. on July 7, according to locals.

Eight villagers who are currently being detained at the Dhanyawadi Naval Base in Kyaukphyu Township, Arakan State, are facing charges under Myanmar’s Counter-Terrorism Law, according to the Kyaukphyu Myoma police station.

Domestic travellers to Arakan State will not be kept under quarantine, said the Department of Public Health in Arakan State.

Continuous rain in Arakan State led to flooding at Yatchaung IDP camp in Myebon Township and evacuated IDPs, according to officials of the camp.

Some IDP camps in Arakan State are in urgent need of mosquito nets, according to the in-charges of the camps.

Two out of five men arrested by the Tatmadaw last month from Apaukwa village in conflict-plagued Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township were released on July 4, according to the detainees’ family members.

The Colourless Charity Group, a nongovernmental organisation based in Sittwe, has collected rice reserves for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State and will donate rice to IDPs if they face hardship, according to officials from the group.

Nine people have been detained for about 10 days at a naval base in Kyaukphyu under the military’s Danyawaddy Regional Command, with their families not allowed to see them and prompting concern for their safety.

Transnational commerce at a border trade camp in Maungdaw Township, Arakan State, was suspended for a second time on July 3 as COVID-19 concerns were raised anew, according to the Maungdaw District General Administration Department.

About 30 houses in Rathedaung Township’s Shay Yar Taw village were burgled last week while their owners were away, having fled violence in the area, according to residents.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Myanmar has signed an agreement with the Arakan State government to carry out several development projects in the state, with infrastructure initiatives to be implemented beginning on October 1.

A 67-year-old man was shot dead last week by the Tatmadaw in Kyaukphyu Township, with the military accusing him of being a member of the Arakan Army (AA), according to his family.

An elderly man from Tan Byint Gyi village in Arakan State’s Mrauk-U Township was allegedly injured by gunfire from Tatmadaw troops and three men were detained by the military on July 3, locals said.