UN Development Program report says ‘Rakhine’s economy has stopped functioning’
Myanmar ’s Rakhine state, home to the Rohingya minority and engulfed in conflict between government forces and a powerful ethnic group, could face an imminent acute famine, the United Nations development agency warned in a new report.
As a result, UNDP said, “an already highly vulnerable population may be on the brink of collapse in the coming months.” Since Myanmar’s military seized power in 2021 from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, pro-democracy guerrillas and ethnic minority armed forces have been attempting to oust the military from power.
With domestic and international markets no longer accessible because of blockades, UNDP said people’s incomes are collapsing because they can’t export goods, and that agricultural jobs are disappearing for the same reason. “Predictions indicate that domestic food production will only cover 20 per cent of its needs by March-April 2025,” UNDP said.
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