GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 13 July)—The decommissioning of the 40,000-strong Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) could be completed “before the first parliamentary elections in the Bangsamoro region” in May 2025, the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 5 July)—Retired history professor and peace and development advocate Rudy B. Rodil has been chosen as recipient of the Fr. Francisco R. Demetrio, S.J. Award by Xavier University in Cagayan de Oro City and will be
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 04 July) – The BARMM Governors’ Caucus (BGC) on Tuesday sought anew the complete decommissioning of the 40,000-strong Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), “for peace and prosperity to reign in the Bangsamoro region.” The BGC is
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 01 July) – With only two years left until June 30, 2025 — the end of the extended transition period in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region on Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) — the Peace Implementing Panels of the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 29 June) – The Peace Implementing Panels of the government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will meet on Saturday, July 1 to discuss transition-related issues such as decommissioning and the June 18 law enforcement operation
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 26 June) — The former OIC Defense Secretary is back as Palace Peace Adviser. Defense Senior Undersecretary Carlito Galvez is back as Secretary of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity, a post
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 23 June) – Malacanang has ordered an impartial investigation into the police operation in Datu Paglas, Maguindanao del Sur that left seven Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) members dead, Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., chair of the
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 22 June)—The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has asked the Government of the Philippines (GPH) to let an independent third party investigate the recent law enforcement operation in Datu Paglas, Maguindanao del Sur that killed seven
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 14 June) ― The 63 villages from six towns in North Cotabato that opted to join the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) four years ago will form at least eight municipalities, officials said. The
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 2 June)—Aging and needing help, former combatants of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) hailed a move by legislators in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM)
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 12 May) — General Benjamin Acorda Jr., chief of the Philippine National Police, met with officials of the Bangsamoro government and the military in a security summit here to iron out preparations for the barangay and
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 3 May) – With two years before the 2025 parliamentary elections and the end of the transition period in the Bangsamoro region, the national and regional governments need to speed up the decommissioning of former
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 28 March) – The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has assured anew the Philippine Government of its commitment to the provisions of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB). Both sides signed the CAB nine years
It’s the morning of February 7th in Davao City: staff members of forumZFD Philippines are still busy arranging the last details of the venue that will host the conference “Transitional Justice in the Bangsamoro: What’s Next?” for the coming two
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 09 March) — The Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) or the Bangsamoro Parliament enacted late Wednesday night Bangsamoro Autonomy Act No. 35 or the landmark Bangsamoro Electoral Code (BEC), the fourth of the six priority codes
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 05 March) – Several leaders of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) recently visited Northern Ireland to learn from peacemakers and politicians on the Northern Ireland peace process Members of Parliament and other officials
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 05 March) – Seven women leaders in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) will interact with 40 barangay-based leaders in the region in a facilitated conversation on Tuesday, March 7. The “Interactive Round Table Discussion
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 29 January) — Women groups across the seven-province, three-city Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao are asking Members of Parliament (MPs) to use the languages in the region through translation of the draft legislative measures and during
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 27 January) – NurRedha Ibrahim Misuari is no stranger to the Bangsamoro struggle. But unlike her father Nur Misuari, founding chair of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) who led a bloody armed revolution in the
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 20 January) – Three investments in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) worth P475 million have been registered with the Bangsamoro Board of Investments (BBOI), the agency announced on Friday. In a statement, Mohammad
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 19 Jan) – Persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Bangsamoro communities have expressed their desire to join in the decision-making process of the Bangsamoro government. In interviews in Maguindanao del Norte and in the Special Geographic Area
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 18 January) – The requirement to have at least 10,000 members to register as a political party in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is prohibitive and discriminatory, an independent panel made up mostly
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 12 January) – The Supreme Court En Banc has upheld the inclusion of Cotabato City in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). The ruling was made last January 10 but made public only today,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 03 January) — Many had given up hope of seeing Moro revolutionary leaders Nur Misuari, Al Haj Murad Ebrahim and Muslimin Sema – now in their 70s and 80s – in one venue, embracing each other
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 02 January) – Investments in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) plunged by at least half to P1.3 billion in 2022 from P2.8 billion the previous year, data from the Bangsamoro Board of
Last of two parts DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 09 November) – Improving relations between the Bangsamoro Governemnt and the local government units needs to be attended to, to improve service delivery to the Bangsamoro residents, especially during disasters. The differences in statistics
First of two parts DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 08 November) – The nearly two-hour briefing for President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. on the impact of Typhoon Paeng on the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), livestreamed from the 6th Infantry Division
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 23 October) – While the peace processes between government and the Moro liberation fronts have converged for a smoother implementation of the peace agreements, old drivers of conflict in the Bangsamoro region could resurface and new drivers
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews / 23 October) – Ten years after the Philippine government finally and officially recognized the “Bangsamoro” and three years after the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) was born, the Bangsamoro celebrated yet another historic day on
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 09 October 2022) – The chair of the Peace Implementing Panel of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is urging President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. to fast-track the grant of amnesty to members who committed crimes punishable under
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 09 October) — “We have been waiting for three years for the passage of the Indigenous Peoples’ (IP) Code of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Perhaps, it is the women they are waiting
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 Sept) – The “new” set of Cabinet members of the extended Bangsamoro Transition Authority (2022 to 2025) is a Cabinet of mostly reappointed officials. The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) has 14 Ministers and 15
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 September) – A Member of Parliament (MP) has filed a resolution at the Parliament of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) requesting the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) to establish a Bangsamoro desk in the main office
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews /25 September) – The minimum age requirement to be elected Chief Minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is 25 years old, according to the proposed Bangsamoro Electoral Code of 2022 which prescribes the “structural,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 20 September) – When the 80-member Parliament of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) begins its regular sessions this week in Cotabato City, it will be a Parliament with “no majority and no minority.” “Just one BTA,”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 20 September) – Three elections to the 80-member Bangsamoro Parliament shall have passed by September 15, 2032, the 10th anniversary of the inaugural session of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) under the Marcos-the-son administration: the first election
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 15 September) – “We walk this path together” even if the path to lasting peace is difficult, President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. told the 80-member Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) on Thursday. “The path to lasting peace is always
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
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 11 September) – “This is a great day, a great day for the Bangsamoro homeland,” the 83-year-old Nur Misuari, chair of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) said of his meeting with Bangsamoro Chief Minister Ahod
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 11 September) – President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. is the special guest at the inaugural session of the Parliament of the new Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) on Thursday, September 15 in Cotabato City, Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito
SPECIAL REPORT Last of two parts DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 04 September) — Nurredha Misuari says that in the meeting with Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez, she saw how everyone “just wants to cooperate now and they are really … for
SPECIAL REPORT1st of two parts DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 03 September) – The fathers waged an armed revolution, hunted in the battlefield by troops of President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. Their children are now appointees of Marcos’ son and namesake, President Ferdinand
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 03 September) – Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez refers to the newly-constituted Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) as the “BTA of a united BARMM” (Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao) noting that for the first time, the
AWANG, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao (MindaNews / 21 August) – Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez sees a “brighter outlook” for the Bangsamoro now that the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the two factions of the Moro National Liberation Front
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 17 May) – Seventeen Mindanawons were among 38 peace partners honored by the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity (OPAPRU) at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) on Monday for their role
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 16 February) – If he had not become a boxer, Emmanuel Pacquiao would probably have taken up arms and join the New People’s Army (NPA), the senator and world boxing icon told peace advocates during the “Peace and
GENERAL SANTOS CITY(MindaNews / 23 January) – The bigger challenge in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is how to sustain the momentum of the peace process and let its gains be felt by every Bangsamoro people during
CAMP DARAPANAN, Maguindanao (MindaNews / 08 Nov) — “Nay, ang hirap po pala pag-ipinanganak ka sa panahon ng gyera ano, lalaki ka rin na makipag gyera (Mother, it’s difficult to be born during wartime, you grow up becoming a warrior),” Abu Nasif
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 07 Nov) — A 6,000-strong Joint Peace Security Team (JPST) tasked to secure peace in the Bangsamoro communities is supposed to have been set up in line with the normalization process of the 2014 peace agreement between
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 30 October) – The peace advocacy group Mindanao People’s Caucus has called on the Bangsamoro government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to deliver their promises for the sake of the Bangsamoro people, now that
