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The Moro conflict [38] [39] [40] was an insurgency in the Mindanao region of the Philippines which involved multiple armed groups. [41] [30] A decades-long peace process [38] [42] has resulted in peace deals between the Philippine government and two major armed groups, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) [43] and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), [44] but other smaller armed ...
Despite the Philippines being one of the most liberal Asian countries for journalists, [2] Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has said that it is one of the world's deadliest for them. Violence against journalists continued even with the establishment of the Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) in 2016.
At least 399,765 people from 100,174 families were affected, including 100,533 residents who were left homeless, [30] while Surigao del Sur governor Alexander Pimentel ordered the suspension of classes in the affected areas until December 6 [25] and cancelled all Christmas parties in government offices to encourage donations instead. [31]
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF; Arabic: جبهة تحرير مورو الإسلامية, romanized: Jabhat Taḥrīr Moro al-ʾIslāmiyyah) is an Islamist group based in Mindanao, Philippines, which sought an autonomous region of the Moro people from the central government. [2]
Tsunami damage at Barangay Tibpuan, Lebak, Mindanao. Several fault zones in the region are capable of producing major earthquakes and destructive local tsunamis. The two major fault zones that are most dangerous are the Sulu Trench in the Sulu Sea and the Cotabato Trench, a region of subduction that crosses the Celebes Sea and the Moro Gulf in Southern Mindanao.
Reuben Canoy, leader of the Mindanao People's Democratic Movement and former presidential candidate had an averted plan to declare the Federal Republic of Mindanao in 1986. [10] [11] Four years later, the 1990 Mindanao crisis arose where Col. Alexander Noble led a mutiny and proclaimed an independent Federal Republic of Mindanao. [12]
Over 1,250 families, equivalent to 5,227 people, in Masara and four other barangays of Maco, were evacuated. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] A three-year old child and a two-month old infant were rescued on February 9 after being buried for more than 60 hours by the debris, [ 21 ] prompting a 14-hour extension of rescue operations beyond the 48-hour limit. [ 22 ]
The 2000 Philippine campaign against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front was a military campaign conducted by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) against a Muslim secessionist group that took place during the presidency of Joseph Estrada in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in the Philippines.