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A Young Leader in the Philippines’ Battle-scarred ‘Islamic City’
It is a challenge to represent South Madaya Proper, a district in Marawi, the Philippines’ historic “Islamic city”, depopulated two years ago in a battle between government forces and jihadists.
To do so, a young council chair says, she acts as both official and activist.
- Matthew Wheeler
- ICG
Marawi’s Youngest Barangay Chair
Faykha Khayriyyah Alonto Ala is the youngest official in Marawi, a Muslim-majority city in the west of Mindanao, the second-largest island in the Philippines.
Having just reached her nineteenth birthday, she is surely one of the…