By Carolyn O. Arguillas on May 23 2013 4:33 pm
DARAPANAN, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao (MindaNews/23 May) – The May 13 synchronized national, regional and local elections marked the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s first foray into electoral politics, albeit only partly,… »
By Patricio P. Diaz on May 19 2013 1:11 pm
III. What Will Work (Continued 2: Key to Transition) GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/19 May)– The Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) is the present holding the future of the Moros… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on May 14 2013 2:42 pm
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/14 May) – The Regional Board of Canvassers (RBOC) of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) convened at 6:14 p.m. Monday but failed to initialize the Consolidated… »
By Froilan Gallardo on May 12 2013 5:22 pm
Members of the Citizens Coalition for ARMM Electoral Reforms ( C-Care) prepare for their monitoring of the elections at their headquarters in Marantao town in Lanao del Sur, 12 May… »
By Ferdinandh B. Cabrera on May 11 2013 6:12 pm
PARANG, Maguindanao (MindaNews/11 May) – Some 400 police personnel who have been trained to be members of the Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) and provide additional security force, were deployed… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on May 3 2013 11:58 am
PARANG, Maguindanao (MindaNews/03 May) – A total of 14 election-related incidents have been recorded in the five-province, two-city Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) from October 1 to April 30, … »
By Steven Rood on May 2 2013 3:36 pm
MAKATI CITY (MindaNews/02 May) — When we hear about the current slow pace of negotiations between the government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, we can lose… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on May 2 2013 3:31 pm
UPDATED COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/02 May) – The Bangsamoro Transition Commission is still awaiting the release of its budget but managed to meet this week and will meet again two weeks… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on May 2 2013 3:28 pm
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/02 May) – A former Ambassador who is now a member of the Bangsamoro Transition Commission says the process they are going through now in preparation for the… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on May 1 2013 4:00 pm
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/30 April) – The 15-member Transition Commission (TransCom) tasked to draft the Bangsamoro Basic Law held its first session in Mindanao Tuesday with experts on Constitution-making as resource… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on April 26 2013 9:07 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 April) – The five-province, two-city Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) posted the highest poverty incidence among families in the country’s 17 regions nationwide in 2012, with… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on April 23 2013 3:52 pm
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/23 April) – It was his first visit to the province of Lanao del Sur in his nearly three-year old administration and he was supposed to have campaigned… »
By Artha Kira Paredes / VERA Files on April 21 2013 9:31 am
COTABATO CITY (VERA Files through MindaNews/21 April) — The Department of Education in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao is organizing teams of teachers to deal with threats of violence… »
By Artha Kira Paredes / VERA Files on April 21 2013 9:22 am
COTABATO CITY (VERA Files through MindaNews/21 April) — Social Studies teacher Abunawas Solaiman clearly remembers the 2004 elections because, he said, it was the only time he felt safe serving… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on April 3 2013 1:51 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/03 April) – Of the country’s 52 million voters, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao’s 1.3 million voters will spend the longest time in the polling precincts in… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on March 22 2013 4:50 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 March) – The eight alleged members of the “Royal Security Forces of the Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo” who were charged for waging war and terrorism… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on March 13 2013 6:29 am
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews / 12 March) – Electoral candidates in Lanao del Sur and this city signed on Monday a covenant to end violence and political machination that made the… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on March 11 2013 10:01 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/11 March) – The chair of the Regional Human Rights Commission of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (RHRC-ARMM) is appealing for an end to violence in Sabah… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on March 1 2013 9:26 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/01 March) – The seven-member Independent Commission on Policing (ICP) that will conduct studies and produce a set of recommendations on the appropriate policing for the Bangsamoro, the… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on February 28 2013 11:09 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 February) – The government (GPH) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panels ended their three-day talks in Kuala Lumpur at 9:49 p.m. Wednesday with the panels… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on February 26 2013 4:03 pm
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 26 February) – Among the first tasks the Transition Commission (TransCom) on the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro has to complete are the laying down of the… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on December 18 2012 1:47 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 December) – President Aquino on Monday signed Executive Order 120 creating the 15-member Transition Commission (TransCom) that would prepare the groundwork for the setting up of the… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on November 25 2012 9:00 am
KUALA LUMPUR (MindaNews/24 Nov) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) got Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) chair Nur Misuari and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chair Al Haj Murad… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on November 25 2012 8:59 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 November) – Newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice Mario Victor “Marvic” Leonen will inhibit from deliberations if the GPH-MILF Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) or the Executive Order… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on November 24 2012 7:01 pm
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/24 November))—A 19-member Malaysian delegation attended a forum here Saturday to explore business opportunities in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), the first foreign economic mission in… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on November 18 2012 1:17 am
KUALA LUMPUR (MindaNews/17 Nov) – The annexes to the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro will be finished before the yearend, the government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on November 17 2012 12:45 am
KUALA LUMPUR (MindaNews/16 November) – This week’s round of talks on the annexes to the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) will end on Saturday, November 17 instead of Sunday… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on November 16 2012 5:39 pm
KUALA LUMPUR (MindaNews 16 November) – Unlike last month when they were crafting the final text of what would become the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB), there is much… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on November 12 2012 3:40 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/12 Nov) – The Executive Order creating the15-member Transition Commission (TransCom) for the Bangsamoro poltical entity is now with the Office of the Executive Secretary (OES) and should… »
By Miriam Coronel- Ferrer on November 7 2012 4:09 pm
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews/07 Nov) — Building on consensus points is probably the best way to describe the process that led to the document that we now call the Framework Agreement… »
By Patricio P. Diaz on October 28 2012 10:52 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/28 October) — Cotabato City Vice Mayor Muslimin Sema said during an interview last Wednesday that the “only solution” to the problem of achieving long-lasting peace in… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on October 28 2012 10:51 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 October) – There is a way for the factions of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to move forward together… »
By Lorie Ann Cascaro on October 28 2012 12:54 am
DARAPANAN, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao (MindaNews/27 October) — Al Haj Murad Ebrahim, chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is optimistic that the next President will be as supportive as… »
By Soliman M. Santos Jr. on October 27 2012 6:44 am
“If such a law [the Bangsamoro Basic Law] can be accommodated within the existing framework of the Constitution, then that would greatly simplify matters. But if it will entail amending… »
By Antonio G. M. La Viña on October 17 2012 2:42 pm
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews/17 October) – After the signing of the Framework Agreement, the Philippine government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will sit down again for more talks,… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on October 14 2012 10:16 pm
MAKATI CITY (MindaNews/14 October) – From the battlefields of Mindanao to Malacanang. Al Haj Murad Ebrahim, chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will lead a delegation of around… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on October 12 2012 12:51 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/11 October) – The overwhelming support for the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) reached between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front late Saturday evening… »
By Keith Bacongco on October 11 2012 10:00 am
The Proposed Bangsamoro Core Territory based on the GHP-MILF Framework of Agreement. Mindanews Graphics by Keith Bacongco | Download Larger Version.
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on October 10 2012 8:06 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/09 October) — “What a wonderful news!” Cotabato Archbishop Orlando Quevedo said of the Framework Agreement reached by the government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on October 7 2012 7:13 pm
KUALA LUMPUR (MindaNews/07 October) – The Bangsamoro is finally, officially recognized by the Philippine government. After 15 years of peace negotiations, two of that under the Aquino administration, the Philippine… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on October 7 2012 8:10 am
KUALA LUMPUR (MindaNews/06 October) – Working overtime to finish the Framework Agreement that would be the basis for moving on to the next steps in the Bangsamoro’s quest for self-determination, … »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on October 6 2012 12:37 am
KUALA LUMPUR (MindaNews/05 October) – In crafting the framework agreement that is expected to be signed soon, the Philippine government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have been… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on September 26 2012 10:18 am
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/26 September) – President Benigno Simeon Aquino III has announced to the five provincial governors in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) that OIC Governor Mujiv Hataman… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on September 26 2012 10:18 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 September) – The government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panels have rescheduled their September 25 to 28 talks to early October, upon the… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on July 15 2012 9:28 am
Last of two parts MAGUINDANAO (MindaNews/14 July) – If the ghosts of registrations past are to be exorcised and electoral reforms are to take root in the Autonomous Region in… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on June 22 2012 7:36 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 June) – “Not yet started” or “ongoing” That is the status of most of the projects funded under the P8.59 billion “stimulus fund” for the Autonomous Region… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on May 11 2012 9:50 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 May) — OIC Governor Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) says he is “sure” that majority of the 27 persons named to the… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on May 5 2012 7:19 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/04 May)—After 22 years, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has set up an office in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. CHR chairperson Rosetta Ann P. Rosales… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on April 30 2012 8:57 am
2nd of three parts KUALA LUMPUR (MindaNews/29 April) – Contrary to popular perception, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) is not a product of a peace agreement but a… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on April 30 2012 8:56 am
KUALA LUMPUR (MindaNews/29 April) — The Office of the Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) was a no-show as an observer in the April 24 talks between… »
