More than 64,000 people displaced by the fighting that broke out between a faction of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in September 2013 are in need of humanitarian support, a United Nations agency said on Wednesday.

Luiza Carvalho, the UN resident and humanitarian coordinator for the Philippines, said in a statement that there are still some 17,000 people who are living in “extremely difficult conditions in overcrowded evacuation centers with inadequate sanitation.”

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