As at Paletwa in southern Chin State, people in Rakhine State depend on commodities smuggled from neighboring India and Bangladesh as supply routes from mainland Myanmar are blocked.

According to the agency, up to 150,000 Rohingya have sought refuge in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district since early 2024, adding to an already overstretched humanitarian crisis.

The war in Myanmar has already negatively affected Bangladesh and India, and to a smaller extent, China and Thailand. It has the potential to metamorphose into a larger regional crisis with severe ...