NDRMMC Casualties Update as of 6a.m. of December 20, 2011: Cagayan de Oro City:  579 Iligan: 279 Bukidnon: 47 Download NDRMMC Situation Report

  On December 2, 2011, 237 farmer beneficiaries of the Ocaya Ranch in Barangay Kuya, Maramag, Bukidnon finally claimed the 48-hectare land awarded to them by the Department of Agrarian Reform under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reform (CARPER). The farmers were accompanied by a team from the Department of Agrarian Reform South [...]

Kadayawan, touted as the “King of Festivals” in the country, is an annual thanksgiving for a bountiful harvest and a celebration of a rich culture. The festival will run until the end of the month.

The Congregation of the Holy Spirit (also referred to as the Spiritans), which is helping a poor community in Pindugangan, Tipanoy, Iligan City with various agricultural endeavors and other sources of livelihood, is currently experimenting with honey bee farming. They sought the help of Cebu honey bee expert Roberto Flores, who has been in the [...]

The curse of child labor is present in the chromite mines of in Barangay Diegas, Basilisa in Dinagat Island, Surigao del Norte. Everyday, under-aged children toil to gather the coarse black chromite ore in the muddy fields. They are lucky if they have picks and shovels to gather the ore but most of them used [...]

Close to 22 million students all over the Philippines are going back to school. In Mindanao, students and teachers have to contend with the usual opening day woes – lack of classrooms and books. In Davao, public school authorities are catching up in the construction of toilet facilities. The lack of money has always been [...]

(From March Issue of Our Mindanao)

Selected photographs taken during the Kadayawan Festival 2010 in Davao City. Mindanews Photos by Keith Bacongco

Mindanews photojournalist Froilan Gallardo revisited the former main headquarters of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) — Camp Abubakar — 10 years after it was captured by government forces. The camp, which is situated between the boundaries of Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur, is now the headquarters of the Army’s 603rd Infantry Brigade.

BULUAN, Maguindanao- Mindanao is not all about war. Mindanao has a multi-diverse culture. School children in Buluan town, Maguindanao perform the “pawakan”, a dance that depicts a chicken during the inaugural of newly-elect Governor Esmail Magundadatu on June 30. Photo by Froilan Gallardo

Here in Mindanao, native delicacies have often become “landmarks” of a place especially when you are travelling by bus. In almost every town’s terminal or bus stop, a unique delicacy is being sold that distinguishes it from the rest.

Picture Story by BJ Patino Kulaman Valley, now called Sen. Ninoy Aquino, is a hilly municipality in Sultan Kudarat made up of 20 barangays. On May 10, 2010, its voting residents braved acombination of rugged terrain and heavy rainsand trooped to various polling precincts for the country’s first ever automated elections. At times the voting process [...]

Three decades have passed, bloody wars have been waged, lives and properties were lost and yet the Moro struggle to establish a separate bangsa (nation) is far from over. At the end of a gruesome and tiring war, what remains to be seen are the wounds that would never heal, things lost and broken, and [...]

The El Nino phenomenon in 2010 struck not only Mindanao but the entire country as well. The drought has damaged billions of pesos of agricultural lands and reduced water levels not only of rivers but also  of energy-generating lakes.  The provincial agricultural office of North Cotabato has reported that the drought has destroyed at least [...]

In Augsut 2008,  war broke out between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Southwes Philippines. Twelve months later, thousands of people are still living in evacuation camps, unable to go back to their homes. In this photo essay by Froilan Gallardo, takes us back to what had happened in the past [...]