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
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 19 April) — Non-Moro indigenous women in the Bangsamoro region are calling for more meaningful participation in governance, pushing back against what they describe as tokenistic inclusion in decision-making spaces. “Parating may reklamo … ‘Yong babaeng nilagay diyan, for
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 19 April) — Continued improvements in the peace and security conditions in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) will lay the foundation for potential investments from major Japanese companies, the Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines
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,
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 27 February) — The Bangsamoro peace process is in “limbo,” the erstwhile rebel group Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) said. In an editorial entitled “Need for a full-pledged GPH Panel Chair now” published Thursday on luwaran.com,
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 / 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
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
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 02 December) — The Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) vowed to pass a new law this month to apportion the 32 districts across the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) so the twice-delayed first regular elections can
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
MAKATI CITY (MindaNews / 23 November) – At least 800 members of the erstwhile rebel group Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have so far applied for amnesty with the deadline for application just less than four months away, government officials
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 / 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 / 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 / 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
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 17 Sept) — Interim Chief Minister Abdulraof Macacua said the Supreme Court’s issuance of a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on the implementation of Bangsamoro Autonomy Act (BAA) 77 or the redistricting law that distributed the seven parliamentary district
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
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews /07 September) – The government peace panel that completed the negotiations with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and signed the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) on March 27, 2014 is urging the government under President Ferdinand
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 06 September) – “It’s not an option,” Education Minister Mohagher Iqbal said of proposals urging him to take a leave of absence while the Commission on Audit (COA) is conducting its special audit on the alleged anomalous
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 07 September) — The Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE) has released a statement condemning what it described as “uncalled for” and “alarming” the retrieval of documents by a special audit team from the Commission
Jazmin Bonifacio of Leyte Samar Daily Express / Patricio P. Diaz Fellow SAMAR (MindaNews / 29 August ) — Alma Gabin decided to leave the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its New People’s Army (NPA) in early 2020,
Ricky J. Bautista of Samar Chronicle / Patricio P. Diaz Fellow CATBALOGAN CITY (MindaNews / 28 August) — In the steep, forested slopes of San Jose de Buan, Samar, there was a time when no one dared to speak too
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews /25 August) – Only 5% or 1,286 out of 26,145 decommissioned combatants of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s (MILF) Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF), are from the six MILF camps previously acknowledged by the national government, and
Video courtesy of Jamela Aisha Alindogan “Your room is on the 11th floor, and the air raid shelter is on basement four. Welcome to Kyiv.” The receptionist handed me the key cards with a polite smile. I wheeled my
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 21 August) – Peace stakeholders in Mindanao led by Cardinal Orlando Quevedo are seeking an audience with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to break the impasse between the peace implementing panels of the government (GPH) and the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 18 August) — Mindanao’s lone Cardinal, Orlando B. Quevedo, OMI, will convene a gathering of representatives of the government and MILF peace implementing panels and civil society organizations on August 19 and 20 in Davao City to
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 17 August) — The chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on Saturday issued a new directive, effective immediately, prohibiting its commanders and officials from participating “in any decommissioning or normalization activities” organized by the
DARAPANAN, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao del Norte (MindaNews / 30 March 2024) – The Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) marked its 10th anniversary on Wednesday, March 27 with peace stakeholders gathering here to celebrate the first decade of implementing the peace
DARAPANAN, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao del Norte (MindaNews / 30 March) – Twelve persons were honored for their significant contributions to the Bangsamoro peace process at the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) here
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews / 27 January)— Secretary Carlito Galvez and Basilan Gov. Hadjiman “Jim” Hataman Salliman signed on Friday a memorandum of agreement relative to the implementation of the local normalization initiative program to promote peace and sustainable development in
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 26 December) – The Bangsamoro Parliament has approved the proposed P98.5 billion budget of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) for 2024, the last full-year budget that will be implemented by the 80-member Bangsamoro Transition
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 December) – The first election of the 80-member Bangsamoro Parliament on May 12, 2025 is less than 17 months away but preparations have yet to start as the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of the
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 1 December) – Various groups in the country hailed the decision of the Philippine government to resume peace negotiations with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), which was terminated in 2017 under the administration
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 23 November) – The Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), the peace agreement signed by the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in 2014, may not be fully implemented by June 30, 2025,
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 01 October) – The Bangsamoro Parliament on Thursday passed on third and final reading the Bangsamoro Local Governance Code of 2023 which aims to change the status quo in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), towards a
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 3 Sep)—Mayor Sebastian Duterte, who chairs the Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC)-Davao, vowed to support the peace initiatives of the national government to preserve the “insurgency-free” status of the region. In a release issued by
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 18 August) — The Bangsamoro Parliament approved on third and final reading the creation of eight more towns in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) from the 63 barangays comprising the Special Geographic Area
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 11 August) — Only 102 or fewer than 1 percent of 11,033 applicants for the Bangsamoro police force from the two Moro fronts passed the selection process. The successful applicants, mostly sons and daughters of former
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 10 August) – The Council of Leaders of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) ended its first meeting under the Marcos administration on Wednesday afternoon with a resolve to meet quarterly. There are only
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 09 August) – Majority of the 30-member Council of Leaders of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) took their oath before Special Assistant to the President Antonio Lagdameo on Wednesday morning at the Soto Grande
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 06 August) – The interim C hief Minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao will convene in Davao City on August 9 its Council of Leaders, whose members include two non-Moro religious leaders : Cardinal
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 July) – In his State of the Nation (SONA) last Monday, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. vowed to issue a Proclamation granting amnesty to rebel returnees, a move that is long overdue because the year-long period
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 27 July) – A total of 26,000 combatants of the 40,000-strong Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) would, have been deactivated this year with the resumption of the decommissioning process on August 3, Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito
MindaNews file photo KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 17 July) – As intermittent fighting between the government and the communist rebels continues in some parts of the country, the prospects for peace under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. look “dim,” a US-based
