People in the western part of the country have been driven to scavenging for bamboo shoots, as humanitarian workers warn that a wartime blockade and aid cutbacks led by Washington have caused hunger cases to surge.
“Another day has gone, and I have to struggle again for another day,” fruit vendor Kyaw Win Shein said in the town of Mrauk U in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.
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