Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said that a New People’s Army (NPA) leader had asked him to help the Manobo evacuees who left their homes three weeks ago because of alleged abuses and threats perpetrated by the Army.
New People's Army guerillas released an Army officer here after holding him for 19 days amid repeated requests from the soldier’s wife and brokers from Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and a religious group.
The city government here decided that May 15 will be the target date of the end of their restoration in Isla Verde along the southern boulevard, formerly a cramped community that was flattened by a huge fire last month.
The local government unit of a town in Zamboanga del Sur turned over 2,000 kilos of organic rice seeds and vegetable seeds to Manobo evacuees here in an activity facilitated by environmental groups.
The Talaingod Manobos highlighted an Earth Day protest rally here where they slammed government agencies for allowing the entry of five mining companies into their homeland in Davao del Norte.