Foreign journalists are banned from the Rohingya region of Rakhine, making it nearly impossible to independently Misbah Uddin Ahmed, a government health officer, sits at his desk looking weary. She has to explain to them that they are too far along, but reassures them that officials will take the

human rights violations in Kachin State and northern Shan State in Burma has prompted Burma Campaign UK Although there is officially an arms embargo in place, some European companies are already supplying

While United Nations officials and international NGOs cite the urgent need to “scale up,” staff on the They are not officially recognized as refugees, and so the agency tasked with leading the humanitarian Medicine and shelter supplies have been stuck in offices and staff grounded. MTI’s partners had money and shelter for some 4,000 families but are unable to distribute it because official The bureau did not respond to a request for comment and phone calls to their office went unanswered.

But officials in Bangladesh on Monday said a number of issues remained unresolved, in particular worries Abul Kalam, a Bangladesh relief official, said by phone from Cox's Bazar that officials are preparing A local government official, Khaleda Begum, called the border calm. million Rohingya Muslims are living in refugee camps in Bangladesh, international aid workers, local officials

Tarafdar said from a makeshift stage, set up on the premises of the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission office Ali was the first government official to declare Bangladesh an independent country by lowering the Pakistan Ali later joined the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Bangladesh and was posted as a diplomat.

Myanmar’s government rescinded access by a United Nations official who has been investigating human rights But she said officials changed their mind due to a statement she released in July outlining the difficulties at least 9,000 Rohingya had died in Myanmar during a roughly 30-day period ― more than 22 times the official Burmese officials arrested two Reuters journalists last week after the pair had been invited to meet with police officials in the city of Yangon.

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Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi would loosen the restrictions when her civilian government took office Rohingya — who share physical, cultural and linguistic similarities with South Asian ethnic groups — as foreigners By early February, officials said they had issued 6,202 cards in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state, home provisions enacted under military rule — such as blocking Suu Kyi from the presidency because she had a foreign He pointed to the deaths of nine police officers in northern Rakhine last October at the hands of alleged

More than 14,000 still missing “More than 20,000 Tutsi were killed here at the former commune offices

Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign assistance programs, including the U.N Richard Gowan, a U.N. expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations, said cuts of this magnitude United Nations, which has less of a constituency in Washington than does the State Department.U.S. officials State Department officials, for instance, were told that they should try to identify up to $1 billion The reductions in diplomacy and foreign assistance represent a blow to Tillerson and Nikki Haley, the

thousands of people have been harassed, attacked or killed because of their status as outsiders or foreign Despite claims to the contrary by the government, violence against foreign nationals in South Africa Political leaders and officials of the national, provincial and local government often blame foreign With denialism and impunity, violence continues It is common knowledge that the official South African In some instances, state agents have actively protected those accused of anti-foreigner violence.

remains ideologically committed to fighting against what it calls a repressive oligarchy that responds to foreign The group has killed sixteen police officers so far this year, while the government claims the group Army officers in private concede progress is slow. One is corruption: military officers allegedly accept bribes to allow illicit businesses to function Some senior officers maintain the military has not captured armed actors for fear criminally complicit