KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/13 April) – A top official of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in North Cotabato has admitted that the leader of a group that allegedly led last week an attack in Matalam town is one of their members.
HUA HIN, Thailand (MindaNews/01 March) — Outgoing Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has committed to work for the immediate resumption of the formal peace negotiations between the the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) as he reiterated Malaysia's willingness to help end the decades-old Moro rebellion in Mindanao.
Abdullah, however, has less than a month to fulfill his commitment. Following disastrous results in last year’s general elections, he is scheduled to step aside on March 31, in favor of Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak.
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/05 February) – Moro National Liberation Front chair Nur Misuari said his group has scheduled a dialogue in Davao city on March 9-11 with representatives from the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and government to tackle ‘obstructions’ to the peace accord.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 May) – The Central Committee of the Nur Misuari-led Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) has acknowledged sending two "official" representatives to a meeting with other MNLF factions in Tripoli, Libya, but says they have yet to decide if it would adopt the May 18 “Tripoli Declaration on Unity and Reconciliation of the MNLF Leadership.”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 May) – The Tripartite Meeting among the Philippine government, Moro National Liberation Front and Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) scheduled before month’s end in Manila will not push through, MNLF chair Nur Misuari announced before thousands of supporters at the Rizal Memorial Colleges’ parade grounds here Saturday afternoon.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 May) – Moro leader Nur Misuari says he has no plans to attack Sabah but wants the International Court of Justice to settle the status of Sabah if Malaysia will not resolve the issue with the Bangsamoro “justly and peacefully.”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 May) – Leaders of various alliances from among the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) endcd their two-day meeting with outgoing Presidential Adviser Jesus Dureza in Tripoli, Libya, on May 18 with an agreement among the MNLF to "form a transition leadership and unification committee" that would include Nur Misuari.
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/1 May) — A Moro group has condemned the bombing of a Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) camp in Indanan, Sulu by the Marines last Wednesday.
“It is ironic that while Manila is trying to project there is progress in the peace process by releasing Nur Misuari, it also continues its military actions on the ground against the MNLF forces,” Amira Lidasan, national president of Suara Bangsamoro (Voice of the Moro People), said.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 April) – Moro leader Nur Misuari was granted bail by a regional trial court in Makati, six years, three months and 18 days since he was moved from Malaysia to Manila for detention on alleged rebellion charges.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MIndaNews/15 April) – A representative from the 56-strong Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) arrived in the country Monday to act as a ‘mediator’ between feuding leaders of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF).
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/02 March) — Cotabato City Mayor Muslimin Sema has been elected chair of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) allegedly by the Central Committee in Pagadian City Tuesday night.
Sema told MindaNews he was elected “by unanimous decision of the more than 2/3 Central Committee members present.”
M17grpmnlf (DAVAO CITY) – The joint working groups of the government and Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) have been given an “expanded mandate” to formulate “possible proposals” to amend Republic Act 9054, the law passed after the signing of the 1996 “Final Peace Agreement” which was supposed to have incorporated provisions of the peace pact into the law governing the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM)
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/14 Feb) – Representatives from the government and Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) are presently in Istanbul, Turkey, to discuss with officials of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) on the progress of the “implementation of the salient provisions” of the 1996 GRP-MNLF peace agreement.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/13 January) – The review of the implementation of the 1996 Final Peace Agreement between the Philippine government and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) is over, the reports of the five joint working groups have been submitted but there will be no tripartite meeting on January 14 as originally scheduled.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/08 January) – The joint working groups of the government and Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) ended today their review of the implementation of the 1996 final peace agreement, for presentation at the tripartite meeting with the Organization of the Islamic Conference on January 14.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 January) — The joint working groups set up by the Philippine government and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) are presently reviewing the implementation of the 1996 Final Peace Agreement and will report the results of the review to the January 14 Tripartite Meeting with the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 December) — The five working groups set up by the Philippine government and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) to review the implementation of the 1996 "Final Peace Agreement" will meet January 3 to 7 in Manila.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/08 December) — Thousands of MNLF members from various parts of Mindanao gathered at a beach resort here Saturday for the "2nd Extraordinary Consultative Session" to discuss, among others, developments in the review of the 1996 "Final Peace Agreement" with government.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 November) – The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) is accelerating its support program for development and reconstruction of Southern Philippines with "16 million dollars allocated to this," Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary-general of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) said in his closing remarks Monday at the end of the three-day Tripartite Meeting here with the Philippine government and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
JEDDAH, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (MindaNews/13November) — His release from detention was number one item on the Moro National Liberation Front’s agenda but the Philippine government and the Organization of the Islamic Conference’s Peace Committee for Southern Philippines said the Tripartite Meeting was not the proper venue.
JEDDAH, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (MindaNews/13 November) – “The attention of the whole world is focused on us … we cannot afford to fail,” the secretary-general of the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), said Monday afternoon (evening in Manila) at the end of the three-day Tripartite Meeting here with the Philippine government and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF).
JEDDAH, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (MindaNews/12 November) – The Philippine government and Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) have agreed to set up joint working groups to tackle five clustered issues in the review of the implementation of the 1996 “Final Peace Agreement” whose progress reports will be discussed in the next Tripartite Meeting with the Organizaton of the Islamic Conference (OIC) on January 14, 2008.
JEDDAH, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (MindaNews/11 November) –ARMM Governor Datu Zaldy Ampatuan has reiterated his willingness to sacrifice his post should the peace process demand it, but hopes the Philippine government will first complete the implementation of the 1996 Final Peace Agreement with the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) before signing a peace pact with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
JEDDAH, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (MindaNews/11 November) – They entered the hall of the Crystal Ballroom of the Crowne Plaza Hotel here in their black, gray or dark blue suits, some of them walking slower than they used to, others sporting haircuts suitable for those with more salt than pepper now, the rest still dark from dye. The lines etched on their faces are more visible now.
JEDDAH, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (MindaNews/11 November) – In three minutes, the plenary session of the Tripartite Meeting here was adjourned this morning to give way to a small-group meeting among representatives of the Philippine government (GRP), Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
JEDDAH, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (MindaNews/10 November) — Eleven years after they signed the 1996 “Final Peace Agreement,” the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP), the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) gathered at the Crowne Plaza Hotel’s Crystal Ballroom here this afternoon for the inaugural session of the three-day Tripartite Meeting that would review the implementation of the controversial peace pact.
JEDDAH, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (MindaNews/10 November) – Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) chair Nur Misuari has warned the Philippine government against signing a peace agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), citing claims by an American diplomat that a peace pact with the MILF “will be illegal.”
MANILA (MindaNews/09 November) – Detained Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) chair Nur Misuari, earlier granted by the court permission to attend the Tripartite Meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia with the Philippine government and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), won’t make it to Jeddah after all.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/6 Nov) — The top brass in the military in Mindanao, as well as commanders on the ground, feel the need to institutionalize trainings on peace building and conflict management to help bring about peace in the island and as part of the efforts to transform soldiers to become responsible warriors.
This was the consensus among generals and colonels gathered in a forum at the Balay Mindanaw Peace Center here Wednesday last week, after ground commanders whose soldiers had undergone peace building trainings presented testimonies of the good the seminars had brought to their units.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/06 November) – A regional trial court has granted Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) chair Nur Misuari permission to attend the tripartite meeting with the Philippine government and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from November 10 to 12.
Misuari’s petition to travel to Jeddah, where he lived in exile from the early 1970s to 1996, was granted by Judge Winlove Dumayas of the Regional Trial Court Branch 59 in Makati City on condition he would not, among others, engage in any political or other activity that would be inimical to the Philippine government, while abroad, and he would return by November 13.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/10 July) — The tripartite meeting of the Philippine government, Moro National Liberation Front and Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to review the implementation of the 1996 “Final Peace Agreement” has been reset to last week of August instead of July 17 to 19, Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus Dureza said here Tuesday afternoon.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 February) – Peace Process Undersecretary Ramon Santos, Marine Brig. Gen. Benjamin Dolorfino and 23 of their companions finally stepped out of the camp of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in Bitan-ag, Panamao, Sulu at 3:30 p.m. Sunday instead of 4:30 p.m Friday, after the MNLF was informed a preparatory tripartite meeting would be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on March 17 to 18 to discuss the implementation of the 1996 Final Peace Agreement it signed with the Philippine government.
