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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Edith M. Lederer

Myanmar's conflict-torn Rakhine state could face an imminent acute famine, UN report warns

UN Myanmar Famine - (Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

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.

The U.N. Development Program said in the report issued Thursday that “a perfect storm is brewing” which has put western Rakhine “on the precipice of an unprecedented disaster.”

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