Tag: Jamalia Pindaton

Long way home for war-torn Marawi city residents

by Cecil Morella Agence France-Presse BALO-I, Lanao del Sur (AFP) — Cradling her baby in a muddy tent camp, Jamalia Pindaton has no idea if she can return home to Marawi in the southern Philippines after the end of a five-month war launched by Islamic State supporters. More than 350,000 people from in and around Marawi, the mainly Catholic Philippines’ Islamic capital, were displaced because of the conflict, which ended on Monday when soldiers killed […]