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LaetitiavandenAssum

@lvandenassum

Independent diplomatic expert. Previously Advisory Comm Rakhine, Myanmar; Dutch ambassador to UK, Mexico, Kenya, Somalia, South Africa, SE Asia; UNICEF Tanzania

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calendar_today01-04-2013 13:32:00

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Edith Mirante (@edithmirante) 's Twitter Profile Photo

1. This History Thread is about bridges of Burma (Myanmar), a land of many waterways. Bridges have been built by colonial occupiers, foreign enterprises, local people. They've been destroyed by resistance fighters, regime forces & March 2025 earthquake. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

1. This History Thread is about bridges of Burma (Myanmar), a land of many waterways. Bridges have been built by colonial occupiers, foreign enterprises, local people. They've been destroyed by resistance fighters, regime forces & March 2025 earthquake. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
The Irrawaddy (Eng) (@irrawaddynews) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ensuring that the junta regained the northern Shan capital without firing a shot, China’s interference in Myanmar has never been so public or so brazen. Read more: bit.ly/42ZjZ8H #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

Ensuring that the junta regained the northern Shan capital without firing a shot, China’s interference in Myanmar has never been so public or so brazen.
Read more: bit.ly/42ZjZ8H
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Joe Freeman (@joefree215) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you missed our FCCT talk I’ll be speaking about “Frontline Poets” this evening in Bangkok. Come on out to hear stories and extraordinary poems from the front lines of Myanmar’s conflict. Details in the flyer 👇

If you missed our FCCT talk I’ll be speaking about “Frontline Poets” this evening in Bangkok. Come on out to hear stories and extraordinary poems from the front lines of Myanmar’s conflict. Details in the flyer 👇
Nathan Ruser (@nrg8000) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"We Want Democracy" written in paint on the Burmese National Highway 8, and less than 10km away from the major city of Dawei and a major Junta military garrison shows precisely how narrow the Junta's reach across practically the whole country. google.com/maps/place/14%…

"We Want Democracy" written in paint on the Burmese National Highway 8, and less than 10km away from the major city of Dawei and a major Junta military garrison shows precisely how narrow the Junta's reach across practically the whole country. 
google.com/maps/place/14%…
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"The draining of democratic values from our national identity will leave America defined by its size, power and quixotic lust for profit: a place, not an idea." nytimes.com/2025/04/27/opi…

Frontier Myanmar (@frontiermm) 's Twitter Profile Photo

AFP | Myanmar marked one month since suffering its fiercest earthquake in more than a century on Monday, with military bombardments unabated despite a humanitarian truce as thousands of survivors camp in makeshift shelters. Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanmar-mar…

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"China Disrupts Earth’s Rotation": NASA Confirms Massive Project Is Slowing the Planet With Unprecedented Global Consequences sustainability-times.com/environmental-…

The Irrawaddy (Eng) (@irrawaddynews) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Bangladesh’s interim government has defended unofficial contact with the Arakan Army because the rebels have seized the entire Rakhine side of the border. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar bit.ly/3YhRTmt

LaetitiavandenAssum (@lvandenassum) 's Twitter Profile Photo

South Africa’s HIV programme is collapsing & our government is absent. We’re watching the largest HIV treatment program in the world unravelling in real time. We don’t need perfection but we do need a combination of urgency, action & strategy to save it. dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-0…

Security Council Report (@scrtweets) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This afternoon (30 April), the #UNSC will hold a private meeting on #Myanmar. ◽️Briefers: SE of the SG on Myanmar Julie Bishop and SE of the ASEAN Chair on Myanmar Tan Sri Othman bin Hashim. ◽️Requested by: Republic of Korea Mission to the UN🇰🇷🇺🇳 & UK at the UN 🇬🇧🇺🇳. →Read more: bit.ly/44MpsB0

This afternoon (30 April), the #UNSC will hold a private meeting on #Myanmar.

◽️Briefers: SE of the SG on Myanmar Julie Bishop and SE of the <a href="/ASEAN/">ASEAN</a> Chair on Myanmar Tan Sri Othman bin Hashim.

◽️Requested by: <a href="/ROK_Mission/">Republic of Korea Mission to the UN🇰🇷🇺🇳</a> &amp; <a href="/UKUN_NewYork/">UK at the UN 🇬🇧🇺🇳</a>. 

→Read more: bit.ly/44MpsB0
World Politics Review (@wpreview) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Reeling from US funding freezes and cuts, the UN plans to hemorrhage staff in the coming months. That could do lasting damage to the organization. But as Richard Gowan writes, it doesn’t have to. worldpoliticsreview.com/un-staff-fundi…

The Irrawaddy (Eng) (@irrawaddynews) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Chinese Envoy Meets Junta Ministers for Border Security Talks China's Ambassador to Myanmar, Ma Jia, held separate talks with junta deputy PM and foreign affairs minister Than Swe on Tuesday and home affairs minister Lt-Gen Tun Tun Naung on Wednesday in Naypyitaw, following the

Chinese Envoy Meets Junta Ministers for Border Security Talks

China's Ambassador to Myanmar, Ma Jia, held separate talks with junta deputy PM and foreign affairs minister Than Swe on Tuesday and home affairs minister Lt-Gen Tun Tun Naung on Wednesday in Naypyitaw, following the
LaetitiavandenAssum (@lvandenassum) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Myanmar: production of arms & munitions decline in weapons manufacturing factories on the west bank of Ayeyarwady River. Transportation has become more difficult and troops guarding factories now have less time for production work. ⁦Narinjara News⁩ narinjara.com/news/detail/68…

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Blocking aid starves civilians. It leaves them without basic medical support. It strips them of dignity and hope. It inflicts a cruel collective punishment. Blocking aid kills.

Blocking aid starves civilians. It leaves them without basic medical support. It strips them of dignity and hope. It inflicts a cruel collective punishment. Blocking aid kills.
The Irrawaddy (Eng) (@irrawaddynews) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Brotherhood Alliance (Arakan Army, Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, Ta’ang National Liberation Army) has extended its ceasefire till May 31 for quake recovery amid junta air attacks. (Photo: Junta air attack in TNLA territory / Ta’ang Post) #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

The Brotherhood Alliance (Arakan Army, Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, Ta’ang National Liberation Army) has extended its ceasefire till May 31 for quake recovery amid junta air attacks. (Photo: Junta air attack in TNLA territory / Ta’ang Post) #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
The Irrawaddy (Eng) (@irrawaddynews) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Civilian United Nations ambassador U Kyaw Moe Tun says the regime cannot be trusted with the nuclear power plant that Russia has pledged to build in Naypyitaw. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar bit.ly/3ERxmi4