GWEN IFILL: Next: protecting civilians in a conflict zone with eyes and a notepad. The island of Mindanao in the Philippines, hit hard by a typhoon earlier this month, has seen separatist conflict ...

In late January of this year, sixty-seven Filipinos died in Mamasapano, Mindanao—following a botched operation dubbed: Exodus. The public outcry was raw and visceral, awakening both a renewed ...

Deadly violence has gripped the southwestern Philippines since the 1960s and left around 120,000 people dead in what's widely known as the Mindanao conflict. Then in 2014 one major Mindanao rebel ...

The Mindanao Trust Fund (MTF) enables development agencies to pool resources and coordinate support for conflict-affected areas in Mindanao. The MTF is administered by the World Bank, which ...

Mindanao crisis: A city on fire. All of a sudden, the Philippines is grappling with the spectre of ISIL and, for some, Marcosian authoritarianism.

The island of Mindanao is also home to many indigenous groups. Despite colonization may of the indigenous peoples have retained their traditional way of life. The Manobo live in the remote ...

As the conflicts raging in Mindanao become more asymmetric, the use of IEDs enables militants to inflict damage on the military and strike fear into communities, ...

BDA is funded by the Mindanao Trust Fund, a multi-donor grant facility that has provided infrastructure to nearly half a million people across 220 conflict-affected communities in Mindanao. Eighty-six ...

The Mindanao conflict has reaped at least 850,000 from 2013 up to 2015 alone, and the figure could be much higher if the casualty numbers could be collated since the start of the decades-old ...

Mindanao is the second largest island in the Philippines . It's also home to the most of the region's minority Muslim community known as the Moros. Conflict in the region flared up in the 1960s ...