The United States, which was until late the world’s best charitable donation, has pledged at least US$ 9 million to Myanmar to help earthquake-affected communities but current and former US officials say the destroying of its international aid programme has affected its response.
Three US Agency for International Development ( USAID ) workers who had travelled to Myanmar after the quake were told they were being let , go, Marcia Wong, a former senior USAID official, told Reuters.
” This team is working very hard, focused on getting charitable assistance to those in need. To obtain news of your inevitable termination- how can that never be demoralising”? Wong said.  ,
In neighbouring Thailand, officials said that government’s death toll from the collapse had risen to 24. Of those, 17 died at the site of a building in the capital, Bangkok, that collapsed while under development. A deeper 77 were also missing it.
CEASEFIRE BREACHES
Myanmar’s defense has struggled to run the country since overthrowing the government of Nobel prize Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021, leaving the economy and standard companies, including care, in tatters, a circumstance exacerbated by the collapse.
The civil war that followed has displaced more than 3 million people, with common food vulnerability and more than a third of the population in need of humanitarian aid, the UN says.
While a peace was declared on Wednesday, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday the coup was restricting support in places that did not back its concept. It also said it was investigating reported assaults by the coup against critics, including after the peace.
A coup spokeswoman did not respond to calls seeking comment.
Gratis Burma Rangers, a pleasure party, told Reuters on Saturday that the government had dropped bombs in Karenni and Shan state on Thursday and Friday despite the ceasefire news, killing at least five individuals.
The victims included residents, according to the group’s leader, David Eubank, who said there had been at least seven for military attacks since the peace.