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Myanmar’s largest city has been rocked by cholera in recent months – but the regime has largely covered up the outbreak by avoiding naming the disease and including confirmed cases in its tallies of acute watery diarrhoea.
Despite heavy fighting in Kawkareik, resistance groups insist they haven’t launched an all-out offensive to seize the Kayin State town, but the battle has led to a rapprochement with an officer under investigation for human rights abuses.
The Arakan Army’s recent victories have its neighbours’ full attention, but a number of factors continue to prevent formal engagement – even as Bangladesh struggles to make headway on Rohingya repatriation efforts with the junta.

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