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Millions face hunger as food and fuel prices spike in coup-stricken Myanmar

SCMP, 02 Jun 2021
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Myanmar’s economy has been paralysed since the ousting of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a military coup on February 1, 2021, worsening the plight of the country’s poor. With soaring food prices and rising unemployment, up to 3.4 million more people in Myanmar are predicted to go hungry in the coming six months, according to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP.)

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