Australian reporter Adam Harvey is now out of harm’s way after a bullet of an M-16 rifle which hit him while covering the events in Marawi City has been taken out.
A team from the National Interfaith Humanitarian Mission were denied entry by the military to Marawi City on Thursday, June 15.
A Mindanao-based lawmaker believes the traditional conflict resolution proposed by Maranao traditional leaders might do the trick in the current crisis faced by Marawi City.
Traditional Maranao leaders have expressed lament over the destruction of Marawi City as fighting between extremists and government forces entered its 24th day on Thursday.
The city government here has widened its scope on granting scholarship programs to students who will be studying law or medicine, an official said.
A military official on Thursday said that a suspected bomber of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria-linked Maute group was arrested in Cagayan de Oro City on Thursday, June 15.
A total of P84 million worth of assistance was provided by government agencies to 66,738 families or 324,406 individuals displaced from the besieged Marawi City, an official said on Thursday.
The sultanates and Imams of Marawi City and the nearby towns in Lanao del Sur are calling on President Rodrigo Duterte to declare a ceasefire in the embattled city that is continuously being ravaged by the ongoing fighting between the government forces and Islamic radicals.
Eleven unidentified dead bodies were buried at a public cemetery here on Thursday.
Moro and Lumad leaders in Mindanao decried the all-out war campaign of the Duterte administration, especially as it is targeting their communities.