Spokesman Zia Alonto Adiong of the Provincial Crisis Management Committee expressed gratitude to Bayan Muna Representative Carlos Zarate and the rest of the National Interfaith Humanitarian Mission for the support they extended to the evacuees from Marawi and for their eagerness to enter the area to see the actual situation.
About 400 individuals from Marawi City and other neighboring cities have evacuated here in the city as Marawi crisis continues.
A looming humanitarian crisis is feared as the air and ground military offensives by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) against the ISIS-linked Maute Group and Abu Sayyaf continue in Marawi.
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 Muslim woman cries after seeing photos of the current situation in Marawi City displayed at the Mini-Forest Gym in Davao City on Friday. Moro organizations held an interfaith ‘Duyog Ramadan’ in Barangay 23-C where the gym is located for a forum-discussion where evacuees from Marawi and other neighboring towns in Lanao del Sur were gathered. (Robby Joy D. Salveron/davaotoday.com)
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.
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.
