Quarter of a million Filipino's displace by Mindanao fighting
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As the world watches the exodus of refugees from Pakistan's Swat Valley and the brutal civil war in Sri Lanka, another humanitarian crisis has been slowly unfolding in the southern Philippines.
Last August the Government and the country's largest Islamic insurgent group were poised to sign an historic peace deal... but at the eleventh hour it collapsed.
No-one had counted on opposition from the Catholic community to an agreement that would have seen the autonomous muslim region on the island of Mindanao expanded. Since then renewed fighting there has left hundreds dead... and more than a quarter of a million people are still displaced.
Presenter: Kesha West
Speaker: The World Food Programme Philippines country director, Stephen Anderson
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