British
envoy and USAID official hand Php1.5M worth of seaweed post-harvest
facilities to MNLF ex-rebels in Basilan
BASILAN,
MINDANAO --- British Ambassador to the Philippines Paul Dimond
and US Agency for International Development (USAID)
Economic Growth Advisor Robert Barnes handed over this week (December
16) Php1.5 million worth of seaweed post-harvest facilities and
a wooden port to former combatants of the Moro National Liberation
Front (MNLF), an ex-rebel group that signed a Peace Agreement with
the Philippine Government in 1996. Full
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