Myanmar to give UN access to Rakhine State

YANGON: The United Nations said Myanmar’s government agreed on Thursday to grant it access to crisis-hit Rakhine state after months of wrangling over how to repatriate hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees.

The western state has been largely sealed off after a bloody military-led campaign last year that has forced some 700,000 Rohingya to flee to neighboring Bangladesh into what is now the largest refugee camp in the world.