By Patricio P. Diaz on June 14 2013 1:20 pm
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/14 June) – Initialed last February 27, the Annex on Wealth-Sharing has remained snagged and, together with the other annexes, can delay longer – if not much… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on June 14 2013 1:14 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/14 June) – Eight months after the signing of the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) and four months after President Benigno Simeon Aquino III said peace was… »
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 18 2013 9:20 am
III. What Will Work (Continued 1: Past and Present) GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/18 May)– Some shreds of the past show how Government and successive Presidents have handled the Moro… »
By Bong Montesa on May 5 2013 8:46 pm
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews/05 May) — Edward de Bono talks about the “peaking effect”: “Athletes train hard for the Olympic Games. Their aim is to reach peak mental and physical condition… »
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 Patricio P. Diaz on April 25 2013 11:45 am
I. Open-Ended Roadmap GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/25 April) – “Transition” as used here specifically refers to the period of establishing the governmental institutions, mechanics and modalities for the entrenchment of… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on April 17 2013 6:30 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/17 April) – April 15, 2013 marked exactly six months to the day the Philippine government (GPH) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) signed the Framework Agreement on… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on April 15 2013 1:02 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/14 April) – Six months after the signing of the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) on October 15, 2012 and four months past their supposed yearend 2012… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on April 15 2013 1:01 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/14 April) – What have the government (GPH) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panels accomplished six months after the October 15, 2012 signing of the Framework… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on April 11 2013 6:40 pm
KUALA LUMPUR (MindaNews/11 April) – The peace panels of the Philippine government (GPH) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) ended their three-day negotiations today (Thursday) with the three annexes to… »
By Steven Rood on April 11 2013 6:28 pm
KUALA LUMPUR — Since the International Contact Group was formed in late 2009 to work with the Malaysian Facilitator in peace talks between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on April 10 2013 12:37 pm
KUALA LUMPUR (MindaNews/10 April) – The Philippine government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) formally resumed Tuesday afternoon negotiations on the three annexes to the Framework Agreement on… »
By Patricio P. Diaz on April 7 2013 10:03 pm
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/07 April 2013) — The signing of the Framework Agreement on Bangsamoro on October 15, 2012 was the poetical “sun always shining” that emerged from “behind the… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on April 4 2013 9:02 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/03 April) – The three remaining annexes that would complete the comprehensive peace pact between the Philippine government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) “must be… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on April 4 2013 9:01 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/03 April) – The moderator of the press conference had to butt in to remind reporters that the press conference was not about Sabah but about the Transition… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on March 30 2013 1:26 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/30 March) – The 15-member Bangsamoro Transition Commission (TransCom) of the Philippine government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will have its first meeting on Wednesday,… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on March 25 2013 6:05 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 March) – The March 25 to 27 peace negotiations in Kuala Lumpur between the Philippine government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) did not push… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on March 25 2013 11:30 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 March) — The government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front peace panels are supposed to meet today, March 25, until March 27 in Kuala Lumpur to work on… »
By Lorie Ann Cascaro on March 6 2013 9:02 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/05 March) – Support to the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Davao City is high among… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on March 5 2013 4:02 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/05 March) — The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has beefed up security for all team sites of the 54-member Malaysian-led International Monitoring Team (IMT) in five… »
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 February 25 2013 2:55 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 February) – Malacanng announced Monday noon the appointment of 15 members of the Transition Commission of the Philippine government (GPH) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on February 25 2013 8:29 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 February) –The Philippine government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front resume negotiations in Kuala Lumpur today (Monday) on the four annexes to the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) … »
By Steven Rood on February 22 2013 11:33 am
In a study I wrote a number of years ago, I quoted a peace activist in Mindanao lamenting the lack of success in ending the war between the government and… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on February 14 2013 8:06 pm
CAMP DARAPANAN, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao (MindaNews/14 February) – “Let the people judge,” Al Haj Murad Ebrahim, chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), said on criticisms that they have … »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on February 14 2013 8:05 pm
SULTAN KUDARAT, Maguindanao (MindaNews/14 February) – Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim has a lot of explaining to do about their new relationship with the Philippine… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on February 11 2013 10:33 pm
SULTAN KUDARAT, Maguindanao (MindaNews/11 February) — Neither the government nor the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) remembered. February 11, 2013, the day they launched “Sajahatra Bangsamoro,” a socio-economic peace initiative… »
By Ferdinandh B. Cabrera on February 11 2013 6:00 am
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/10 February) — A battalion from the Army’s 6th Infantry Division and another battalion from the central command of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will provide perimeter security… »
By Lorie Ann Cascaro on February 4 2013 5:15 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 February) – The two-day Philippine Development Forum (PDF) that started Monday morning s focusing on Mindanao development as government sees the signing of the Framework Agreement on the… »
By Bui Tran Nhu Phuong on February 4 2013 5:14 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 Feb) — The Philippines is no longer the “sick man of Asia” but “Asia’s rising tiger… President Aquino has proven that good governance is possible,” Budget Secretary… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on February 4 2013 5:11 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 February) – The head of the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) is now, finally, a member of the government (GPH) peace panel negotiating with the Moro… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on January 20 2013 11:55 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 January) — The government (GPH) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panels are returning to Kuala Lumpur this week to resume negotiations on the four annexes… »
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 Froilan Gallardo on November 17 2012 10:38 pm
KAUSWAGAN, Lanao del Norte (MindaNews/17 November) – From warrior to peacemaker. Dropping his war overtures, Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) commander Abdurahman Macapaar, aka Kumander Bravo, stunned his listeners in Barangay… »
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 Froilan Gallardo on November 17 2012 12:37 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/16 November)— The joint Coordinating Committee on the Cessation of Hostilities (Joint CCCH) of the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has approved the… »
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 Lorie Ann Cascaro on November 5 2012 6:25 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/05 November) – Bayan Muna warned the United States might try to influence the final peace agreement that will be entered into by the Government of the Philippines… »
By Mindanews on November 4 2012 3:51 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 November) – Some 80 Lumad (indigenous peoples) leaders around Mindanao have gathered in Midsayap, North Cotabato for a two-day conference beginning Sunday, to discuss the peace processes… »
