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 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 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 29 2013 11:40 pm
DARAPANAN, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao (MindaNews/29 April) – The United Nations and World Bank launched Monday in partnership with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) a three-year program that would provide… »
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 Patricio P. Diaz on April 23 2013 3:38 pm
GENERAL SANTOS CITY, April 23, 2013 – Posted in the website of OPAPP (Office of Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process) on Sunday, April 21, is “Gov’t on diligent review… »
By Patricio P. Diaz on April 18 2013 12:34 pm
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 17 April) – Mohagher Iqbal, chair of the MILF peace panel and concurrently of the Bangsamoro Transition Commission, meandered awhile emotionally in his welcome remarks… »
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 26 2013 4:00 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 March) – The peace panels of the Philippine government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have agreed to reset the talks scheduled this week, for… »
By Lorie Ann Cascaro on March 25 2013 6:24 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 March) – The daughter of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III questioned the credibility of Malaysia to continue facilitating the peace talks between the Government of… »
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 Ruby Thursday More on March 21 2013 5:36 pm
Members of civil society organizations and the Armed Forces of the Philippines gather at the Freedom Park in Davao City on Thursday, March 21 to call for the resumption of the… »
By Lorie Ann Cascaro on March 21 2013 5:29 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 21 March) – Peace advocates warned Thursday a possible derailment of the peace talks between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation… »
By Ferdinandh B. Cabrera on March 12 2013 12:24 am
CAMP SIONGCO, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao (MindaNews / 11 March) – While Malaysian security forces on Monday entered the seventh day of military and police operations against a Moro group… »
By Jesus G. Dureza on March 10 2013 7:51 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 March) — I was in Zamboanga City over the weekend to attend the Jaycee Senate Zamboanga Chapter Induction there. I was glad I took the trip. When… »
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 Allen V. Estabillo on February 26 2013 7:59 pm
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 26 February) – Around 11,000 families of active members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in parts of Region 12 and the Autonomous Region… »
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 Patricio P. Diaz on February 22 2013 11:42 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 21 February) – Last February 11 (9 in another report), Rajah Mudah Agbimuddin Kiram, the brother and heir apparent of Sultan Jamalul Kiram III of… »
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 Ferdinandh B. Cabrera on February 10 2013 9:37 am
Soldiers from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (right) and the Philippine Army (left) used to exchange bullets in a gunfight. Last Saturday, they shared a “boodle fight” meal during a… »
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 20 2012 2:29 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 Dec) – The Senate and the House of Representatives on Wednesday passed resolutions supporting the December 17 Executive Order creating the Transition Commission that would pave 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… »
