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
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 1 February) – Resetting the first parliamentary election in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) will give both the national and regional governments the time to fulfill their commitments under the peace agreement, Presidential
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 12 September) – Seven justices of the Supreme Court, including the Chief Justice, visited Marawi City on September 8 to award historical bar site markers but ended up making history themselves. It was the first time
PARANG, Maguindanao (MindaNews/24 April) – About 50 guerrillas of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) led by Datu Solaiman Dimatuntay arrived at the local police station on Monday morning to demand the return of a handgun that was seized Sunday from their
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 10 April) — President Rodrigo Duterte will call all Moro revolutionary leaders to a meeting to come up with a consensus on how to move forward in implementing the legislation aspect of their peace agreements as
DARAPANAN, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao (MindaNews/30 October) — Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim urged all international non-government organizations (NGO) and communities to extend assistance in support to the signing of the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/07 August) — A business group in Mindanao on Tuesday urged the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation (MILF) Front to jointly address the threat posed by the breakaway Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF). Ricardo C. Juliano,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/23 July) — It merited a paragraph in his State of the Nation Address (SONA), a slight improvement from last year’s complete silence on the progress of the peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (MindaNews/18 July) – The Philippine government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front peace panels ended their three-day talks here Wednesday with a five-paragraph Joint Statement “expressing confidence in wrapping up” discussions on the transition from the present Autonomous
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (MindaNews/18 July) – “On the same page now, but different paragraphs.” This was how Malaysian facilitator Tengku Dato’ Ab Ghafar Tengku Mohamed summed up the progress of the first two days of the three-day peace negotiations here
CAMP DARAPANAN, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao (MindaNews/09 July) – From independence to autonomy, from six years to three years. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has agreed to cut down to three years its earlier proposed six-year transition into the new
SULTAN KUDARAT, Maguindanao (MindaNews/09 July) — Bangsamoro leaders bid for greater unity over the weekend through a three-day dialogue facilitated by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) inside Camp Darapanan, its administrative complex here. This developed as the Malaysian facilitator
THE LONG road to peace takes a short detour to Camp Darapanan in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao, this weekend as the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) holds what it calls the “Bangsamoro General Assembly” at its center of gravity in Central Mindanao.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/26 June) — The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is all set to host an important gathering in line with the bid to achieve a negotiated political settlement of the Mindanao conflict, with a top-level delegation from the
KUALA LUMPUR (MindaNews/24 April) – Declaring that the “status quo is unacceptable,” the Philippine government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front peace panels today agreed to work for the creation of a “new autonomous political entity in place of the ARMM”
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/22 March) — The Philippine government (GPH) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) ended their three-day peace negotiations Wednesday with no significant agreement reached on the substantive issues of power and wealth sharing but agreed to approve the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 March) – The Philippine government (GPH) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) resumed peace negotiations in Kuala Lumpur Monday morning, 12 days before the end of the first quarter but instead of forging an agreement by March
Last of two parts DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19March) – By early 2001, the Aquino administration set out to have the August 8, 2011 elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) postponed and synchronized with the May 13, 2013 mid-term
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 March) – The Philippine government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panels resume negotiations Monday in Kuala Lumpur, 12 days before the end of the first quarter, the period within which both panels had
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 March) — Where have all the young men and women gone, 44 years after the Jabidah Massacre sparked a revolution to liberate the Bangsamoro Homeland?
KUALA LUMPUR (MindaNews/15 February) — Only women could have thought of what could be a first, worldwide, in contemporary peace-making history: a Valentine’s gift to the peace panel of a revolutionary group. The second day of the three-day peace talks
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/9 January) – The government peace panel has named two of its consultants in the negotiations with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) as regular members. Dr. Hamid Barra, who has been consultant since 2010, replaces Upi Mayor
KUALA LUMPUR (MindaNews/11 December) – First there was only one: Prof. Miriam Coronel-Ferrer, University of the Philippines professor of political science, the lone woman in the Philippine Government (GPH)-Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace negotiations, representing GPH. This week, there
KUALA LUMPUR (MindaNews/07 December) – The Philippine government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front peace panels will return here next month after meeting with their respective principals – President Benigno Simeon Aquino and MILF chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim – on
KUALA LUMPUR (MindaNews/06 December) – There is no mention of “three for one” or “Bangsamoro substate” in the ongoing three-day peace talks between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) but a new peace formula is emerging
KUALA LUMPUR (MindaNews/06 December) — While the Philippine government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panels are meeting here, representatives of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the MILF are in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, for a
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/07 November) — The ceasefire committees of the government peace panel (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) are meeting with the International Monitoring Team (IMT) here on Wednesday, November 9, to finalize the schedule of the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/03 Nov) – The Philippine government (GPH) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panels agreed in Kuala Lumpur today (Thursday) to “move forward on the substantive agenda” of the talks and meet again “very soon for this
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/29 Oct) — The methods differ but the calls remain the same: No to all-out war, Yes to Peace. “Running priest” Fr. Robert Reyes will lead an “all out-run for all-out peace” Sunday morning in Davao City to
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/28 October) — The military is not undertaking pursuit operations against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Basilan but has filed a complaint against them through the government peace panel’s Coordinating Committee on the Cessation of Hostilities
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/25 October) — The European Union Delegation to the Philippines has urged the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to strengthen their coordination to avoid deadly clashes and for the International Monitoring Team (IMT) to conduct
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/03 October)—The central committee of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has approved a resolution formally expelling breakaway leader Ameril Umra Kato and his men from the group, a rebel official said Monday. Von Al Haq, MILF spokesperson,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 September) – Civil society in Mindanao is asking the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panels to develop a working draft from the two draft proposals currently on the table because “what is lacking
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/13 Sept) – The problem with how the government deals with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is its “fragmented approach” to the peace talks, the former vice chair of the government peace panel lamented in
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/10 September) – “Learn lessons from our mistakes,” Parouk Hussin, the Foreign Affairs chief of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) who became the second and last MNLF official who served as governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, said five years ago when asked what advice he would give the Moro Islamic Liberation Front which was then nearing an impasse in the peace negotiations.
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/09 September) – The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) is 21 years old but the“autonomous region” set-up or “experiment” as many refer to it, including Malacanang, the Moro National Liberation Front and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, has been existing for the last 32 years, spanning six administrations..
nd of a series COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/08 September) – The supposed grant of autonomy by the first Aquino administration to what would be the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) mandated by the 1987 Constitution preceded the Local Governments Act
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/07 September) – When President Benigno Simeon Aquino III met with Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim in Japan on August 4 to talk peace, he did what his mother did 25 years ago: meet with rebel leader Nur Misuari of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in his homeland in Sulu, to talk peace. Aquino the son would have wanted to meet with Murad anywhere, even in his camp in Darapanan, Maguindanao.
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
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/06 September) — The Aquino government has expressed optimism the expected arrival of a Malaysian mediator will help resolve issues besetting the peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. In a press briefing Tuesday in Malacanang, Secretary
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/04 September) – The Moros living in this city should be given a free hand in deciding their destiny, Khaled Musa, deputy chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s (MILF) information committee said. Musa issued the statement in
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/2 September 2011) – The government’s proposed peace settlement submitted to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front on August 22 is “our opening position” and the “minimum” it can offer, government peace panel chair Marvic Leonen said as he
