About 3 million people have been displaced by war in Myanmar and the earthquake has only deepened an already dire humanitarian crisis in which at least 20 million people need aid.

In 2008, Tropical Cyclone Nargis, with winds up to 120 mph, slammed into densely populated southern Myanmar. The death toll was eventually raised to nearly 140,000 people.

Yangon, Myanmar, April 28, 2025 — One month since the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Myanmar, killing more than 3,800 people, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) has reached ...

Myanmar’s people confront a sense that the country’s crises are escalating in scale, ... among them Cyclone Nargis in 2008, Cyclone Mocha in 2023, and Typhoon Yagi in 2024. ...

Myanmar occupies 12th place after Ethiopia and Haiti. However, according to Bradley Murg, an adjunct research fellow with Pacific Forum, it is the “monopoly of violence” that truly defines what ...

As Samaritan’s Purse races to provide aid in earthquake-ravaged Burma, Rev. Franklin Graham shares powerful words on God’s protection over President Trump.

GENEVA: Fighting has slowed significantly in quake-hit Myanmar since a temporary truce began last week, the UN said Tuesday (April 8) urging a complete end to hostilities to deliver aid and allow ...

Oxfam is scaling up its response to reach the most vulnerable groups in hardest hit areas, particularly women, children, and people with disabilities. /END. Notes to the editor. Oxfam in Myanmar has ...

Myanmar's ruling military junta is seizing the aftermath of a deadly earthquake as an opportunity to regain control amid a grueling civil war. But a lasting ceasefire remains unlikely, analysts ...

In 2008, after Cyclone Nargis killed at least 84,500 people in Myanmar, the junta at the time refused to receive international assistance, lacking the transportation infrastructure and ...

Myanmar’s fire department said 403 people have been rescued in Mandalay and 259 bodies have been found so far. ... In the past, it initially refused to allow in foreign rescue teams or many emergency ...