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FILIPINO President Rodrigo Duterte has asked Moro — Muslim Filipino — and communist rebels to join the fight against the country’s Isis affiliate.
The unprecedented move on Sunday came ahead of a Supreme Court challenge by six opposition congress members yesterday to Mr Duterte’s declaration of martial law in the southern island of Mindanao.
Troops are fighting Isis-affiliated Abu Sayyaf extremists who seized the city of Marawi, the largest city in the province of Lanao del Sur on the island, two weeks ago.
Huge protests against corruption and preventable deaths during flooding have rocked the government — the masses are not likely to be able to take direct control in their own interests yet, writes KENNY COYLE, but it’s a promising show of people power
