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MYSTICAL. Dancers perform the Sagayan war dance during the 1st Sagayan Dance Competition in Buluan, Maguindanao on Feb. 11, 2012. Characterized by acrobatic male dancers with skirts and swords, the Sagayan is very popular in Moro areas in Mindanao. MindaNews
TACURONG CITY (MindaNews/14 December) — From being 17th on the list of the 20 most depressed provinces in the country – with the 20th as the poorest – Maguindanao has moved to 15th while Cotabato, currently a 3rd class city,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/7 Nov) – The New People’s Army has, in the past three days, been launching offensives within the area of jurisdiction of the Army’s Eastern Mindanao Command (EastMinCom). At 5:30 this morning, Army reports said that 20 armed
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/24 October) — Contrary to military pronouncements, the Army Special Forces unit that was sent to Al Barka, Basilan on October 18 and suffered 19 casualties may have run after the wrong targets, not the Abu Sayyaf members
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 October) — The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has requested the International Monitoring Team (IMT) to immediately conduct an investigation on the clash in Al Barka town of Basilan Province on Tuesday as hostilities also erupted in
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 October) – Militant church leaders and organizations have pointed accusing fingers at the Armed Forces of the Philippines for the murder of Italian priest Fausto “Pops” Tentorio, PIME, who was killed by a lone gunman inside the
PIKIT, Cotabato (MindaNews/19 September)—Army soldiers and members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) are separately running after the kidnappers who abducted an eight-year-old girl in front of the National High School at the town center here around lunch time
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/09 September) — The government has a “very high political capital“ that could be capitalized in resolving the Bangsamoro issue but government has to deliver it fast before the “window of opportunity” is lost, said Bishop Ephraim Tendero,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/09 September) — The province of North Cotabato has asked the Department of Justice to lead a “super body” that would intervene in resolving cases of land conflicts as these disputes not only threaten the peace but also
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/08 September) — The chief government negotiator in peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) urged delegates to a two-day conference here to find an alternative formula that can bridge the gap between the peace proposals
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 September) — Local and international peace organizations and church leaders are organizing a two-day conference that will attempt to help find means and ways to push the Mindanao peace process forward. Dubbed the 2nd National Solidarity Conference
CAMP DARAPANAN, Maguindanao (MindaNews/06 September) — The Moro Islamic Liberation Front has called on government to respect the agreements reached by both parties in the past 14 years of peace negotiations. The call was made by MILF Chair Al-haj Murad
CAMP DARAPANAN, Maguindanao (MindaNews/05 September) — The Central Committee of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is “inclined to accept” the recommendation of its peace negotiating panel “not to accept” the government proposal as a framework of the negotiation, MILF
ISABELA CITY (MindaNews/27 Aug) – Human rights workers and ceasefire monitors have expressed alarm over what they said was a “rampant” arrest of persons mistaken for members of the notorious Abu Sayyaf. This, as another farmer who also serves as
CAMP OMAR, Maguindanao (MindaNews/18 August) – The leader of a breakaway Moro rebel group said he is willing to support a peace agreement with the Philippine government that would mirror the contents of the botched Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/18 August)—The Central Committee of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front would soon come up with a decision on Ameril Umra Kato, a former commander of the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces who has formed his own Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom
PIKIT, Cotabato (MindaNews/11 August)—Some 200 families have fled two barangays in Datu Piang, Maguindanao in the wake of clashes between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and members of the breakaway Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters of Ameril Umbra Kato. This has
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/14 July) – The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has named Von Al Haq as its new spokesperson, replacing Eid Kabalu, who was asked to quit his post after he openly sought for appointment as officer-in-charge of the
