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Arakan Army Has Myanmar Junta’s Weapons Factories in Its Sights
Capture of Western Command in Rakhine State has exposed the regime's military-industrial complex in Magwe and Bago.
They fled from extremists. Now the government in Burkina Faso tries to hide their existence
Their loved ones were slaughtered by extremists or government-affiliated fighters. Their villages were attacked, their homes ...
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Rakhine rebels capture key towns in Myanmar
China has much at stake. Its 771-kilometer oil and gas pipeline dissects Rakhine from its capital Sittwe through to Myanmar’s ...
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Could the Myanmar Junta Rapidly Collapse Like al-Assad?
With the sudden collapse of the al-Assad regime in Syria, analysts and fighters in other long running civil wars are ...
Gabon’s Junta Gets Direct Access to $620 Million Timber Industry
The junta in Gabon, the world’s second-most forested nation, has taken full control of the nation’s timber company, giving it ...
Niger Jails Leading Activist Critical Of Junta
A Niger court on Friday jailed a leading civil society figure and critic of the military-led authorities, one month after he was detained following a trip abroad, his NGO said.
Myanmar junta to free more than 6,000 prisoners under amnesty
State-run MRTV television reported that Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, the head of the military government, granted amnesties covering 5,864 prisoners from Myanmar, as well as 180 foreigners who will be ...
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Junta Fortress in Sagaing Falls After Yearlong Siege
Regime troops on Wednesday abandoned a heavily reinforced rural police station in Budalin Township after failing to break a siege by local resistance groups.