About 90,000 people displaced by Myanmar conflict: UN

Members of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army walk through Chin Shwe Haw, a border post between Myanmar's Shan state and China's Yunnan province [File: MNDAA]

About 90,000 people have been displaced in Myanmar due to the intensifying conflict between the country’s military rulers and an alliance of ethnic armed groups, the United Nations said.

“As of 9 November, almost 50,000 people in northern Shan were forced into displacement,” the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in an update on Friday.