Swedish aid organisation reopens office in Yangon

29 September 2021
Swedish aid organisation reopens office in Yangon

The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) has moved one of its offices back to Yangon after having temporarily moved it to Thailand due to the instability created by a military coup in the country, Scandasia reported quoting Aftonbladet.

The organization’s assessment from July was that their employees could no longer receive medical help in Rangoon, but now that assessment has changed.

“At the start of September, we made a new assessment which concluded that it’s now possible to receive medical help in Yangon, which makes it a little bit safer to be here. So now we are four Swedes stationed here at the section office at the Embassy of Sweden in Yangon,” head of Development Cooperation in Myanmar for Sida, Frederik Frisell, said.