The Federal Unit has approached LDFs carefully and strategically. 31 of the 93 LDFs are now under the unit’s command led by Bo Let Yar. However, 30 of these 31 are in Pakokku District and the unit’s military reach barely extends to the south-western uplands or the Yaw area.

Sub-national governments in Central Burma continued institution-building by the interim federal units. Meanwhile, the regime’s peace talks with a Naga armed group reopened a long-running territorial dispute in northern Sagaing. In Sagaing, the Human Rights Department held a three-day workshop and the NUG began investigating Mingin Township administrator and Pa Ka Pha leader over the alleged misuse of approx. 3.5 million USD. In Magway, the NUG handed administrative functions to the Interim Magway Federal Unit Government. In Mandalay, the NUG’s Central Committee for Interim Local People’s Administration held two meetings with the region’s People’s Administration Teams, and the Committee Representing the Mandalay Hluttaw met weekly.

This paper is the Part (5) of the briefing paper on federal unit politics in central Burma. Part 1 examined the structural formation of federal units, Part 2 analysed their internal power structures, and Part 3 focused on the human rights frameworks embedded in the interim constitutional arrangements of three federal units in Ah Nyar and Part 4 discussed defence force law in Magway and security landscape.

This analysis presents political, security and governance dynamics of Myanmar’s Naga region, focusing on armed organisations, political parties, and relations with the KIO/KIA, Sagaing Federal Unit, Myanmar military and India. It also examines border security, territorial disputes and Naga self-determination, including interim governance and constitutional arrangements.

The law creates several possible pathways for Magway’s security arrangements. Bo Let Yar, has brought together at least 31 LPDFs and reorganised them into 13 military columns under the unit’s command.

Political developments featured parallel processes, including NSPNC–MNDAA talks on political participation, internal changes within the USDP and continued efforts by federal and opposition actors to strengthen alternative political arrangements. Sagaing, Mandalay and Magway were formally confirmed as members of SCEF.

Across conflict-affected Sagaing, the cost of movement is shaped not only by distance and fuel, but by checkpoints, competing authorities and emerging systems of taxation. The central question is not simply who controls the road, but whether the power exercised there is predictable, respectful and publicly accountable.

Before the conflict, she was an ordinary Ah Nyar woman leading a relatively secure and unremarkable life. She had not been trained as a humanitarian worker, political activist, security analyst or emergency responder. Yet the conflict compelled her to perform aspects of all these roles within her family and community.