Famine looming in Myanmar's Rakhine state: UN

File photo of Rohingya refugees near Taungpyolatyar village, Maung Daw, northern Rakhine State, Myanmar taken in 2018. - AP

UNITED NATIONS: Myanmar's conflict-torn Rakhine state is heading toward famine, the United Nations warned on Thursday (Nov 7), as the country's civil war squeezes commerce and agricultural production.

"Rakhine's economy has stopped functioning," a new report from the UN Development Programme said, projecting "famine conditions by mid-2025" if current levels of food insecurity are left unaddressed.