This is a portion of the 11-hectare relocation site in Barangay Sagongsongan, Marawi City for the families who were displaced when Daesh-inspired group attacked the city on May 23, 2017. The area will be divided into five to house 1,000 houses each partition. (Divina M. Suson/davaotoday.com)
Protest marks the first day of enrollment in the University of the Philippines in Mindanao Tuesday, Aug. 1 as students express opposition to the collection of school fees in the state university. (More…) (Photo by Marie Crestie Joie Contrata)
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol joins the more than 600 participants to the Mindanao Mango Stakeholders’ Forum that embarked on the drafting of the 5-year roadmap for the development of the mango industry in the country held at the Mandaya Hotel in Davao City on Wednesday, Aug. 2 . (Alex D. Lopez/davaotoday.com)
The local government of Ozamis City puts the Philippine Flag in half mast during their flag raising program, Monday morning, a day after City Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog was killed in a shoot out during the service of search warrants at his house (More…) (Divina M. Suson/davaotoday.com)
Army Capt. Jo-ann Petinglay, talks to doctors and nurses of Amai Pakpak Medical Center in Marawi City on Tuesday, Aug 1. The hospital workers are divided into five groups and will go on duty for three-day shifting to attend to patients, mostly evacuees, who are confined in the hospital as the ongoing military operations against the Daesh-inspired Maute group enters in its third month Tuesday, Aug. 1. (Divina M. Suson/davaotoday.com)
Children spend time playing in a covered court turned evacuation center in the town of Saguiaran, Lanao del Sur on Friday, July 28, 2017. They are the children of the 370 families staying inside the evacuation center for more than two months now. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Vice Mayor Nova Princess Parojinog hugs her daughter at the police station in Ozamiz City where she and her brother were temporarily detained after their arrest during the service of search warrant, early dawn of July 30. (Divina M. Suson/davaotoday.com)
In an evacuation center in the town of Saguiaran, Lanao del Sur, a visiting Catholic nun talks to a Muslim evacuee to better understand the conflict and its effects on the residents. The Marawi crisis have caused damages to lives and property. But it also fostered stronger relationships between Muslims and Christians who showed compassion and solidarity to each other. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Boxing champ and Filipino Sen. Manny Pacquiao, who is a Lieutenant Colonel of the Army’s reserved command, visits troops at the Camp Ranao in Marawi City, Saturday morning, July 29 as the government operations against the ISIS-linked Maute group. Pacquiao is the first senator who visited Marawi City since the siege started last May 23. (Divina M. Suson/davaotoday.com)
A visiting Catholic nun facilitates a psychosocial intervention with the children in an evacuation center in Saguiaran town in Lanao del Sur on Friday, July 28. (More…) (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
