Four years after seizing power, Myanmar’s generals are holding on but fighting an increasingly dire battle for survival, experts say

Four years after seizing power in a dawn coup that ousted an elected civilian government, Myanmar's embattled ruling generals are making their most concerted effort to gain legitimacy - by pushing to hold another election.

Myanmar's junta extended a state of emergency by six months on Friday, four years after it seized power triggering a civil war that has claimed thousands of lives. Elections cannot be held under a state of emergency,

Myanmar's ruling military has extended a state of emergency for another six months, state media reported on Friday, a day ahead of the four-year anniversary of a coup that plunged the country into chaos after a decade of tentative democracy.

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Myanmar’s military has prolonged its state of emergency for another six months as the country continues to struggle in maintaining control, with intense fighting continuing across the country, according to a report by Al Jazeera.

YANGON, Jan 31, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Myanmar's junta extended a state of emergency by six months on Friday, as it struggles to quell widespread armed resistance in the wake of its 2021 coup. The ruling military council headed by army chief Min Aung Hlaing unanimously approved the extension, the junta's information team said in a statement.

Myanmar has been locked in a civil war triggered by the military's overthrow of the elected civilian government of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. The junta plans this year to hold an election,