Al Jazeera English
| Oct 27, 2012
Thousands of displaced Rohingya have surged toward already overcrowded camps in western Myanmar and neighboring Bangladesh, the UN has said, after new communal violence earlier this week that left dozens dead. Tens of thousands of mainly...
LinkAsia
| Jun 22, 2012
Peace has descended on Myanmar's Rakhine state, yet some of the region's biggest problems are just beginning. Authorities have to deal with 90,000 displaced citizens, simmering tensions, and the smoldering ruins of Sittwe's neighborhoods.
— May 13 at 06:11 pm
...of special interest to the forest gardener in me. Finally, we’ll be reporting from Sittwe in Myanmar, where displacement of Muslims by their Rak...
— Feb 7 at 04:44 am
...people walking around the Bawdupha Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp on the outskirts of Sittwe, the capital of Myanmar's western Rakhine ...
— May 11 at 04:37 pm
...shelter for up to 13,000 displaced people in the coastal capital of Sittwe. Rakhine, one of Myanmar's poorest and most remote states, is particu...
— last Wednesday at 07:45 am
...a makeshift camp for Rohingya people in Sittwe, northwestern Rakhine State, Myanmar, ahead of the arrival of Cyclone Mahasen, Tuesday, May 14, 2...
Sittwe is the capital of Rakhine State, Myanmar. Sittwe, pronounced site-tway in the Rakhine language, is located on an estuarial island created at the confluence of the Kaladan, Mayu, and Lay Mro rivers emptying into the Bay of Bengal. The city has 181,000 inhabitants. it is the administrative seat of Sittwe Township and Sittwe District.
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