(Reuters) - The chief of the United Nations humanitarian relief agency has urged Myanmar's ruling military to allow greater access to 18 million people ...
STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOS - The chief of the United Nations humanitarian relief agency has urged Myanmar's ruling military to allow greater access to 18 million people in need of aid, describing the situation as critical as a post-coup conflict intensifies.
Myanmar has been locked in crisis since the military wrested back control after a decade of unprecedented reform under quasi-civilian governments. "Successive crises in Myanmar have left one third of the population in need of humanitarian aid," Griffiths said in a statement.The U.N. agency said fighting and natural disasters since the 2021 coup had led to a five-fold increase in the number of displaced people, from 380,000 to 1.9 million.
He said he pressed the junta to expand access and expressed concern about civilians and restrictions and bureaucracy preventing aid groups from helping them.
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