MYANMAR’S junta has suppressed information about a severe food crisis by pressuring researchers not to collect data about hunger and aid workers not to publish it, an investigation has found.

Research by Reuters found that international watchdog the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification removed its colour-coded assessment of Myanmar from its global map displaying levels of hunger over fears for the safety of researchers.  

The watchdog also kept its detailed analyses of how the country was facing one of the worst food crises in the world to itself.