DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 04 August 2026) – The Bangsamoro peace process is back on track with the Peace Implementing Panels of the government (GPH) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) signing on Tuesday a “Declaration of Continuity of the Partnership”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 04 August) – The first meeting this year of the government (GPH) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Peace Implementing Panels on Tuesday, August 4, fell on a historic date in the Bangsamoro peace process: tragic
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 July 2026) – The 45-day campaign period for the 1st Bangsamoro Parliamentary Elections on September 14 starts Thursday with at least 631 candidates and nominees vying for 80 seats. The nearly 2.4 million voters in the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 27 July 2026) – The Bangsamoro peace process merited only three short paragraphs in President Ferdinand Marcos’ 5th State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, delivered in 40 seconds on the 80th minute of his 86-minute speech,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 17 July) – A day after his appointment as concurrent chair of the government’s Peace Implementing Panel (PIP) in the Bangsamoro peace process, Presidential Peace Adviser Mel Senen Sarmiento hit the ground running by meeting with heads
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 July 2026) – “The overarching motivation for my work has been the Common Word both found in the Qur’an and in the Christian Scriptures: Love God and love your neighbor,” Mindanao’s lone Cardinal, Orlando B.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 14 July 2026) – There will be a new chair of the government’s Peace Implementing Panel in the Bangsamoro peace process by Wednesday. “Our liaison has informed me that Malacañang is expected to make the announcement
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 05 July) – The chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)’s Peace Implementing Panel (PIP) has expressed concern on alleged “undue intervention by high government officials” in the run-up to the 1st Bangsamoro Parliamentary Elections on
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 07 June) – It will still be a male-dominated Parliament — as it has been during this seven-year transition period — when the first elected officials of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) assume their
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 07 June 2026) – “First, I don’t have his name,” was the quick reply of Ustadha Nur-Ainee Tan Lim, the first nominee of the Mahardika Party, when asked what she can offer the Bangsamoro Parliament other
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 26 May) – A young Dabawenyo who attended the Bangsamoro Beyond the Transition Period forum over the weekend, thanked representatives of four regional parliamentary political parties for “shar(ing) their visions on the future of the Bangsamoro” before
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 26 May) – How do regional parliamentary political parties envision the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) beyond October 30, the end of the transition period that started in February 2019 and the beginning of the
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
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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
