"Fighting broke out between the Government of Myanmar Army and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) and other armed groups in the Kokang Self- Administered zone, north-eastern Shan State, on 9 February. The fighting continued throughout the month of February. More than 13,000 people are estimated to have been internally displaced from Kokang to other parts of the country during February, according to the Relief and Resettlement Department in Lashio. Many of these people are migrant workers who have travelled on to their places of origin in other parts of the country. The number of people who have fled across the border into China is unconfirmed. Chinese state media have reported that 60,000 people have crossed the border from Kokang into China since 9 February, and that Chinese state authorities are providing assistance to these people. Access to the Kokang Self-Administered Zone has been restricted due to the ongoing fighting. Limited information is available on the humanitarian situation and on people displaced or affected by the fighting in this area. The number of civilians killed or injured due to the fighting is unconfirmed. According to the Government?s Rehabilitation and Administrative Support Committee for the Kokang Self-Administered Zone, 3,000 people are staying at an IDP site at Border Post 125, on the Myanmar side of the border with China, with some assistance provided by the government?s Relief and Resettlement Department and local civil society organizations (CSOs). UN staff have also had access to some 950 displaced people from Kokang who are now in Namtit (Wa Self-Administered Division)."