DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 22 April)) – The International Criminal Court’s Appeals Chamber on Wednesday rejected by a majority vote, the appeal of former President Rodrigo Duterte, as it affirmed the October 23, 2025 ruling of the Pre-Trial Chamber that
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 21 April) – Moro leaders on Tuesday welcomed the appointment of former Local Governments Secretary Mel Senen Sevilla Sarmiento as the new Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity (PAPRU) vice Carlito Galvez, a retired Army general
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 20 April) – Former President Rodrigo Duterte will be a no-show on April 22 at the reading of the judgment on his appeal challenging the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the
April 19, 2026 marks the 26th anniversary of the Air Philippines Flight 541 crash on Samal Island where all 131 passengers and crew on board perished. The charred remains of the victims made identification extremely difficult so many families were unable to claim the remains of their loved ones. The unidentified remains were buried in the Davao Memorial Park but the names of all victims were engraved on five grave markers. MindaNews photo taken on 17 April 2026 by CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS More photos
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 08 April)) – The International Criminal Court’s Appeals Chamber will deliver in open court on April 22 its judgment on the appeal of former President Rodrigo Duterte challenging the October 2025 ruling of the Pre-Trial Chamber
Devotees light candles on the road fronting the first Station of the Cross along Shrine Hills in Matina, Davao City afternoon of Good Friday, 03 April 2026. This scene is replicated in the 13 other stations uphill. MindaNews photo by CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS
Vendor sells four types of seashells at P100 to P160 a kilo in a public market in Matina, Davao City on Holy Monday, 30 March 2026. MindaNews photo by CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 24 March) – The Presidents of the three Jesuit-run Ateneo universities in Mindanao are urging Malacañang to “act with urgency and clarity” and appoint a new chair of the government’s Peace Implementing Panel, as the peace process
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 23 March) — The government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) need to “re-commit to the principles” underpinning their shared journey to peace as implementation of the 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) remains incomplete,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 March) – An allegory on the Duterte patriarch and his daughter Sara led to the takedown of the post, the resignation of the editorial board and eventually, the shutdown of Primum, the student publication of
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 08 February) – The Senate Committee on Local Government has also proposed the second Monday of September this year (September 14) as the date of the first Bangsamoro Parliamentary Elections but issues on sectoral representation need to
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 03 February) – The House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms approved at 3:59 p.m. on Tuesday a substitute bill setting the date of the 1st Bangsamoro Parliamentary Elections to the second Monday of September and every
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 January) – The proposed date for the 1st Bangsamoro Parliamentary Elections (BPE) mentioned in the January 28 resolution of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is September 2026 “at the earliest” but this poses another challenge as the
M/Bca Amejara’s franchise was to ferry passengers “during daytime only” and between Davao City and Samal only DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 29 January) — The franchise of M/Bca Amejara which left the port of Sta. Ana evening of January 17 en
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 26 January) – Former President Rodrigo Duterte will face the International Criminal Court (ICC) on February 23 for the confirmation of charges, exactly five months after its original schedule on September 23. The September 23 hearing
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 18 January) – The chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) claims the new districting law passed by the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) early Tuesday morning “raises serious constitutional questions,” but did not say if
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 14 January) – “Least risk.” Deputy Speaker Laisa Alamia of Basilan, whose office did a matrix on the six parliamentary bills (PB) filed on districting – PB 403, 407, 408, 411, 415 and 416 – describes
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 13 January) — The Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) finally passed a new districting law for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) at 12:33 a.m. on Tuesday, after a 10-hour deliberation, paving the way for
(A look back on the year that was in Mindanao, and Mindanawons in the national and international scene) DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 11 January) – The year 2025 yielded a harvest of at least 27 Mindanao books, 20 of them published
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 11 January) – The continued detention of former President Rodrigo Duterte “remains necessary” because there has been no change in circumstances that would require the Chamber to reverse its previous determination, and there are recent developments
(A look back on the year that was in Mindanao, and Mindanawons in the national and international scene.) DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 10 June) – Of 33 cities in Mindanao, three — Davao, Bayugan and Marawi — elected mayors, vice
(A look back on the year that was in Mindanao, and Mindanawons in the national and international scene.) DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 04 January) — While traveling across Mindanao during the election campaign period, there is no need for a
(A look back on the year that was in Mindanao, and Mindanawons in the national and international scene.) DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 04 January) — Political dynasties continue to rule Mindanao’s 28 provinces and 33 cities as voters gave their
Militant groups in Davao City call for justice, human rights and a just and lasting peace during a rally on International Human Rights Day on Wednesday (10 December 2025). MindaNews photo by CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / December 1) – Davao Archbishop Romulo Valles said the pastoral message he issued on November 29 was meant to “guide the conscience of our faithful,” as he stressed that “our role (is) not to endorse –
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 November) — Archbishop Romulo Valles listed five issues and 11 questions in a pastoral letter that first focused on the capacity of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to lead the country given the “allegations of illegal drug abuse
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 29 November) – The lawyer of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will file next month a new request for his interim release after the results of Duterte’s medical evaluation are out. In a statement issued Friday
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 26 November) – The Commission on Elections’ (Comelec’s) release on Tuesday of the calendar of activities and period of prohibited acts in connection with “March 30, 2026” as the date of the 1st Bangsamoro Parliamentary Elections has
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 23 November) – It took ten years and one month for the Regional Trial Court Branch 221 in Quezon City to convict 43 persons led by Datu Andal Ampatuan Jr. of 57 counts of murder in
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 19 November) – If the October 13, 2025 elections had pushed through, the term of office of the first elected Members of Parliament (MPs) in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) would have been two
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 19 November) – With only five session days left from November 20 until the end of the month, the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) cannot meet the November 30 deadline to pass a new districting law so that
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 09 November) – The proposed P114.1 billion budget of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) for 2026 – the last year of the extended transition period — is P19.7 billion more than the 2025
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 08 November) – On the second floor of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) is a gallery of framed photographs of past and present officials, their names engraved on metal plates after “Hon.” (for Honorable), the present, on the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 03 November) – Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal 4 has been hoisted across areas in Mindanao that were hardest hit by super typhoon Odette (Rai) in December 2021 — Dinagat Islands, Siargao and Bucas Grande Islands –
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 October) — The Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) adjourned its session on October 30 without passing a new districting law for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) but three bills have been filed for
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 Oct) — Appointed members of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) are to continue to serve beyond October 30 “until new officials are duly elected or appointed,” a press statement from the Office of the President
QUEZON, Bukidnon (MindaNews 21 October) – Traveling 114 kilometers from Davao City to Barangay Palacapao, felt like going back to the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: desolate. Barangay Palacapao is where a portion of the Bukidnon-Davao highway collapsed Saturday night,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 11 October) – Vice President Sara Duterte has kept mum on the October 10 decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) that cited her public pronouncements and family’s influence as factors in denying interim release for her
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 08 October) — The Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) may not be able to pass a new districting law by October 30, 2025 as directed by the Supreme Court in its September 30 ruling declaring Bangsamoro Autonomy
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 01 October) – The first Bangsamoro Parliamentary Elections (BPE) will be reset for a third time but not later than March 31, 2026, as the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the two laws — Bangsamoro Autonomy Act
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 September) – Unlike the political parties of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) under Muslimin Sema, Mahardika, the political party of the MNLF under founding chair Nur Misuari,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 29 September) – The political parties of Moro revolutionaries who waged war against the Philippine government and later signed peace agreements with it, asserted in their comments submitted to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) that the electoral
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 29 September) — An election monitoring group is calling on the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to proceed with the 1st Bangsamoro Parliamentary Elections on October 13 for political party and sectoral seats as the temporary restraining order (TRO)
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 20 September) — Women in their 70s and 80s may no longer be able to join Sunday’s street protests as they did in their younger years but they can still call for an end to corruption by
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 17 September) – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Wednesday suspended all preparations for the October 13 polls in the Bangsamoro autonomous region “until the Supreme Court lifts the Temporary Restraining Order or resolves the validity of
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 16 September) – The first parliamentary elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) will proceed as scheduled on October 13 but not for the seven parliamentary district seats originally allocated for Sulu and
