Group gets green light to resume work in Myanmar after lockdown


PETALING JAYA: Medical aid group Mercy Malaysia says it is one of the few humanitarian NGOs given the green light to resume its work in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.

Its president Datuk Dr Ahmad Fai­zal Mohd Perdaus said the United Nations and all other aid groups in Rakhine were told to go into lockdown soon after violence broke out there on Aug 25.

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