This is a podcast edition of COVID, Conflicts and the Peace Process online forum: focus on Marawi City.

May 23, it will have been four years since they were forced out of their homes and while many of them have returned, most of the 27,000 families in ‘Ground Zero’ or the former main battle area between government forces and the Maute Group and its allies, have yet to return home.

We will also check on the progress of the rehabilitation efforts and the security situation in the area.

“COVID, Conflicts and the Peace Process” is a two-session special edition of Reporting Mindanao, an online forum launched in October last year by MindaNews, to discuss various concerns in Mindanao and to provide journalists a venue to enhance their coverage and understanding of these issues.

This is in partnership with Internews. For a copy of the full web forum, email sales@mindanews.com

Executive Producer: Amalia Cabusao

Editor-in-chief: Carolyn Arguillas

Technical team: Rob Gumba and Yas Ocampo

Photographer: Froilan Gallardo