Myanmar's war-torn Rakhine faces a hunger catastrophe, aid groups say


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  • Wednesday, 01 Oct 2025

Rohingya refugees purchase vegetables from a kitchen market at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, August 27, 2025. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) -After Ajib Bahar's six-month-old son fell sick last year in Myanmar's war-torn Rakhine state, the 38-year-old Rohingya mother said she had no medicine or food to give him. The boy died in her arms.

"My children cried all night from hunger. I boiled grass and gave it to them just to keep them quiet," Bahar said from a refugee camp in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar, where she and her family sought safety after fleeing violence and starvation in Myanmar.

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