Myanmar's food crisis and growing hunger in Rakhine state

Hunger is rising in Myanmar, the impoverished Southeast Asian country that has been ravaged by conflict since a 2021 military coup ousted an elected civilian government. Some 3.6 million people are displaced across the war-torn nation, according to the United Nations, and a lack of funding has left millions of vulnerable people without life-saving humanitarian support. Myanmar is one of the world's most underfunded aid operations, with only 12 percent of required funds received, the UN says. More than 16 million people across Myanmar, about a third of the population, are acutely food insecure, meaning that their lack of food threatens lives and livelihoods, according to the World Food Programme. They are the fifth-largest group needing aid anywhere in the...