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West Africa Junta Leaders Plan Taxes to Fund New Investment Bank
The military-led governments of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso plan to channel part of their revenues into a new investment ...
Myanmar forms commission led by junta chief to hold elections, state media says
The junta did not announce a date for the election and Min Aung Hlaing will continue to effectively remain in charge of the ...
New twist in Myanmar civil war as Junta regime lifts emergency after…, announces elections in…; will this change fate of jailed leader Aung San Suu Kyi?
The 2021 coup, overthrew the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, and sparked the Myanmar civil war.
Myanmar junta hands over power to interim civilian govt, chief remains acting President
An announcement in state media said a decree that granted power to the military after its 2021 coup had been cancelled ...
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Myanmar junta enacts harsh election law, including death penalty for dissent
The controversial law, enacted on Tuesday, comes five months before the scheduled poll and amid growing insecurity following a wave of targeted killings of military supporters and former officers in j ...
Maddow Blog | Trump administration tells a foreign military junta what it wants to hear, raising eyebrows
Did the Trump administration lift sanctions on Myanmar after its military leader sent the White House a nice letter? Consider ...
Oman Observer6h
Myanmar junta ends emergency in election run-up
YANGON: Myanmar's junta ended its state of emergency on Thursday, ramping up plans for a December election that opposition ...
Myanmar Now14h
Myanmar junta’s airstrikes kill two dozen in northern Mandalay Region village
The military regime’s aircraft bombed a police station in a commercially vibrant village on the Mandalay-Myitkyina road, ...