IPIL, ZAMBOANGA SIBUGAY โ€” Once carrying arms for the Moro struggle, a group of 12 former Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) combatants are now raising chickens instead of conflict โ€” learning how to build livelihoods through native poultry farming in Dumingag, Zamboanga del Sur. These ex-fighters, drawn from recognized MILFContinue Reading

Eleven years after the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) signed a historic peace agreement, a former rebel leader has reinvented himselfโ€”not as a fighter, but as an entrepreneur, building an ecotourism destination in a province once synonymous with banditry and kidnapping. Barahama Ali, a former senior leaderContinue Reading