Eighty five recruits graduated as Special Civilian Active Auxilliary (SCAA) and were issued firearms on Wednesday to replenish those who were enlisted into the regular forces of the Philippine Army.
Of the 96 villages in Marawi City, only four villages remain “problematic” areas and are now the focused of military operations, Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella said Wednesday during Wednesday’s “Mindanao Hour.”
The Davao Investment Conference (ICON) will push through in July despite the proclamation of Martial law in Mindanao.
The collaboration between the US forces and the Armed Forces of the Philippines only worsens the crisis in the besieged Marawi City, a Moro leader said in a statement on Wednesday.
As the crisis in the besieged Marawi City enters on the 23rd day, several religious groups initiated a community kitchen to feed the thousands evacuees.
A Philippine Navy ship was spotted patrolling the bay of Iligan City on Tuesday afternoon, June 13. (Alex D. Lopez/davaotoday.com)
Joel Yagon, a 34-year old barber who lived in Marawi City says he is transporting their appliances and other items from their hometown in Misamis Oriental. Yagon is one of the eight residents in Marawi City who braved returning to their village to salvage what is left of their belongings. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
As military operations intensify here, six families who evacuated from Barangay Datu Saber returned to the ravaged city to get what were left of their belongings.
Nearly a thousand volunteers from various parts of Mindanao and from Luzon will take part in a three-day interfaith humanitarian mission that will begin today, June 14.
More than 50 volunteers from Davao City formed a circle for a prayer before departing for Iligan City on Tuesday morning, June 13, to join the three-day humanitarian mission to aid thousands of displaced families and individuals from Marawi City due to the continuing military offensives against the ISIS-linked Maute Group and Abu Sayyaf. (Alex D. Lopez/davaotoday.com)
