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UN: Myanmar junta blocking aid to cyclone survivors

A Rohingya woman carries her baby next to her destroyed house at the Basara refugee camp in Sittwe in Rakhine state of Myanmar on May 16 after Cyclone Mocha made landfall. (Photo: AFP)

Myanmar’s military junta has suspended travel authorisations for aid workers trying to reach hundreds of thousands of people in the cyclone-ravaged Rakhine state, the United Nations’ humanitarian affairs office said on Friday.

Cyclone Mocha brought lashing rain and winds of 195 kilometres per hour to Myanmar and neighbouring Bangladesh last month, killing at least 148 people in Myanmar.

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