CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews / 16 October) –For Vice President and presidential aspirant Leni Robredo, the only road to peace with the communist rebels is to resume negotiations with the National Democratic Front (NDF) which represents the Communist Party of
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews /16 October) — The former rebel group Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will help the military in securing and ensuring a peaceful and orderly 2022 national and local elections in the Bangsamoro region, Bangsamoro Interim Chief Minister
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 25 September) — Thirty months after the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) was inaugurated — 18 months of these under a pandemic — direct foreign investments are still coming in trickles in the region
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 Sept) – By a vote of 187 -0-0 , the House of Representatives on Wednesday passed on third and final reading House Bll 10121 extending until 2025 the transition period in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 14 Sept) – Voting viva voce, the House of Representatives passed on second reading Monday night House Bill 10121 extending until 2025 the transition period in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) by resetting
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 August) – With one ‘no’ vote and two abstentions, the Senate late Wednesday afternoon passed on second reading Senate Bill 2214 extending the transition period of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) until
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 28 July) – President Rodrigo Duterte said nothing about the Marawi compensation and Bangsamoro transition extension bills during his sixth and last State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, exactly three years to the day
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 26 July) – President Rodrigo Roa Duterte will deliver his sixth and last State of the Nation Address (SONA) at 4 p.m. on July 26, exactly three years to the day he signed into law Republic
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 10 July) – For the first time in history, Law graduates nationwide will no longer troop to Manila to take the bar exams there. In Mindanao, Law graduates can choose from among five universities that will
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 09 July) — About two dozen civil society organizations have reiterated their appeal to President Rodrigo Duterte to certify as urgent the bills seeking to extend until 2025 the transition period in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 June) – Sunday, October 7, 2012 was a historic day for the Moro people as it marked the first time the Bangsamoro was finally, officially recognized by the Philippine government. President Benigno Simeon Aquino III
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 16 May) – The Senate Committee on Local Government on Friday ended its hearings on the two bills seeking the extension of the transition period in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) until June
PALIMBANG, Sultan Kudarat (MindaNews / 24 April) — Dozens of married Moro women in this impoverished Muslim-dominated town have stepped out of the shadows of their largely patriarchal community. By finding work, these courageous women not only help bring food
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 20 March) – Only a few friends knew he was going to go anytime soon, and when he succumbed to a rare cancer just after the call to prayer at noon on Saturday, March 20 in
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 19 March) — A senior executive from Mindanao’s private sector has expressed support for the extension of the transition deadline of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), saying that such additional legroom “will further
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 14 March) – Representatives of civil society organizations from Lanao del Sur and Lanao del Norte on Saturday a caravan and motorcade for peace in support of the extension of the Bangsamoro transition period for another
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 09 March) – The two houses of Congress have only 17 session days from March 9 until its adjournment sine die on June 3 to act on seven bills proposing to extend the transition period in
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 19 December) – Lanao del Norte Rep. Khalid Dimaporo has filed the fourth bill proposing an extension of the transition period in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) but unlike the first three bills
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 December) – An independent body monitoring the implementation of the peace agreement between the Philippine government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) said the peace process is “fundamentally on track” with the establishment
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 06 December) — Two bills have been filed in the House of Representatives seeking to extend the transition period in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM by another three years by resetting the first
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 28 November) — President Rodrigo Duterte is asking Congress to extend the transition period of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) from three years to “up to five to six years” or until 2024
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 November) – “Dialogue Towards Harmony” is the theme of this year’s Mindanao Week of Peace (MWOP), the 22nd of the annual celebration since 1999. But in the time of COVID-19 pandemic, when restrictions are imposed and survival
1st of 18 parts (This is a revised version of the book “KALINAW MINDANAW: The Story of the GRP-MNLF Peace Process, 1975-1996” published in 2000) This book is dedicated: To the children of Mindanaw for whose sake, I said, I
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 12 October) – A mid-term review of the three-year transition in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) listed accomplishments, ongoing programs and legislation and what have yet to be done, and, citing results of
Last of two parts Sensitive Issues in the Negotiations Focus on three aspects: the problem of territory, for whom is autonomy, and why autonomy? Territory. At the very start of the first round of negotiations, the talks bogged down owing,
1st of two parts ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 04 October) — This was written in 1992, viewed from the government side. Now, this is a way of Looking Back: Lessons from the past peace negotiations between the Philippine Government ang
(Privilege speech delivered by MP Mohagher Iqbal, Minister of Basic, Higher and Technical Education of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao during the session of the interim Bangsamoro Parliament on 23 June 2020 at the Shariff Kabunsuan Complex, Bangsamoro
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 18 June) – The interim Bangsamoro Parliament has yet to act on a proposed resolution expressing “grave concern” over the passage of the proposed Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020. The proposed resolution states that they view the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 17 February) – A year after it voted ‘yes’ to inclusion in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), Cotabato City now wants exclusion from the BARMM until the end of the transition period on
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 Jan) – The Philippine Senate has asked the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) to name its representatives to the Philippine Congress-Bangsamoro Parliament Forum. Republic Act 11054 or
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 04 January) — Despite a shaky start, the 16-day holiday truce between the Philippine government appears to be holding and is expected to raise the prospects of reviving the peace negotiations, Jose Ma. Sison,
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 01 January) — The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is expecting influx of foreign investors in 2020 to further spur its economy, officials said. In 2019, the new Bangsamoro region generated investments worth P4.1
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 28 December) – Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez has urged everyone to “exercise caution” in resuming peace negotiations with the National Democratic Front (NDF) as localized peace talks, he said, have proven to be “highly effective
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 28 December) — The Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) is counting on Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) founding chair Nur Misuari’s vow to help the military go after the Abu
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 22 December) – The government and National Democratic Front (NDF) peace panels in an agreement signed December 21 in Utrecht, recommended the declaation of ceasefire from midnight of December 23, 2019 to 12:59 p.m. on January
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 09 December) – Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III, government peace panel chair in the negotiations with the National Democratic Front (NDF) until President Rodrigo Duterte terminated the peace talks two years ago, arrived in Utrecht, The
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 November) – Exactly eight months to the day the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) was inaugurated, the Bangsamoro Parliament on Friday night approved a budget of 65.6 billion pesos for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 20 November) – Sixty-three villages in six North Cotabato towns that voted yes to inclusion in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in the February 2019 plebiscite were formally turned over Wednesday by Acting North
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 13 November) – Chief Minister Ahod “Al Haj Murad” Ebrahim announced changes in the Cabinet of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) effective November 11, among them his serving in a concurrent capacity as
JAKARTA (MindaNews / 25 September) – Twenty-three years after the Final Peace Agreement between the Philippine government and the Moro National Liberation Front was signed, negotiators and facilitators gathered at the ASEAN Hall here on Monday to remember and reflect
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 13 September) – Running a government is thrice more difficult than running a revolution, interim Chief Minister Ahod “Al Haj Murad” Ebrahim of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), concurent chair of the Moro
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 10 September) – As interim Chief Minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), Ahod “Al Haj Murad” Balawag Ebrahim, more popularly known by his nom de guerre Al Haj Murad Ebrahim, lives and
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 10 September) – Saturday’s event at the gym of the old provincial capitol in Simuay, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao, was supposed to have ended with a key message: the 1,060 combatants of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 08 Sept) – Journalist Patricio Ponce Diaz, described by Cardinal Orlando Quevedo as “peacemaker” and “editor and writer extraordinaire” was laid to rest on Saturday at the Forest Lake Memorial Park, his grave shaded by
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 08 September) — The chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and interim Chief Minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) handed over, at the start of the decommissioning of 30% of the
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 07 September) — The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has allotted P275 million to help transform former combatants of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MIF) become productive members of mainstream society. TESDA Secretary Isidro Lapeña
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 07 September) – Seven months after the organic law for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) was ratified in a plebiscite, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will turn over at least 920 high-powered
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 August) – The decommissioning of 12,000 members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s (MILF) armed wing will be from September 2019 to March 2020, with around 1,100 combatants and 900 weapons decommissioned on September 7
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 August) – The Presidential Peace Adviser on Wednesday declared before an audience of Christian and Muslim religious leaders in Mindanao that the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) will adopt “as
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews /04 August) — Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has ordered the creation of a technical working group (TWG) to help the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) manage its finances and budget. Dominguez designated Undersecretary Gil
