By Carolyn O. Arguillas on May 20 2013 8:48 pm
DARAPANAN, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao (MindaNews/20 May) – The victory of the President’s party in last week’s elections is victory for the peace process, Al Haj Murad Ebrahim, chair of the… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on May 13 2013 1:43 pm
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/13 May) — A top official of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in North Cotabato has assured the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and other authorities the group… »
By Mindanews on May 11 2013 5:20 pm
Representatives from government agencies and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front engage in a series of workshops as part of the GPH-MILF Project Management Team Coordination Planning for the Sajahatra Bangsamoro… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on April 29 2013 11:39 pm
DARAPANAN, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao (MindaNews/29 April) — The chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) said candidates running for elective posts on May 13 “can come and talk to… »
By Mindanews on February 28 2013 6:28 am
ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanews/27 February) – The Western Mindanao Command (WestMinCom) has awarded Bronze Cross Medals to the seven-man International Monitoring Team (IMT) Site 3 in recognition for their acts of… »
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 Jesus G. Dureza on February 18 2013 6:24 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 February) — I was shaken a bit when I learned that a group loyal to the Kiram family of Sulu publicly announced their intentions of pushing for… »
By Patricio P. Diaz on February 8 2013 2:56 pm
GENERAL SANTOS CITY, February 8, 2013 – As reported in three national dailies, on the initiative of President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III, the government will launch on Monday, February… »
By Patricio P. Diaz on January 24 2013 6:29 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 23 January) – President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III told the station managers of Radio Mindanao Network in Malacañang last January 10 that his government’s “relentless campaign against graft and corruption would continue” and warned “that one of the perceived ‘most corrupt’ government agencies ‘will get a very severe jolt’ in due time” without naming the agency. (The Philippine Star, January 12, 2013: Noy: Corrupt gov’t agency will get a severe jolt)
By Froilan Gallardo on November 16 2012 6:59 am
Both camps await word from joint CCCH panel MUNAI, Lanao del Norte (MindaNews/ 15 November)- The Philippine Army and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) averted Thursday a major shooting… »
By Lorie Ann Cascaro on October 30 2012 6:51 pm
DARAPANAN, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao (MindaNews/30 October) — Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim urged all international non-government organizations (NGO) and communities to extend assistance in support… »
By Lorie Ann Cascaro on October 30 2012 6:47 pm
DARAPANAN, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao (MindaNews/30 October)– Like many other Moro men, Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim seems to have resigned to the fact that at… »
By Ruby Thursday More on October 28 2012 7:35 am
MURAD MEETS PRESS. MILF chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim faces a press conference at the MILF headquarters in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao on Saturday, October 27. MindaNews photo by Ruby Thursday… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on October 26 2012 5:04 pm
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/26 October) – The peace agreements entered into by the Philippine government with the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) must… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on October 22 2012 5:23 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 October) – From Davao City to the OIC. Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) chair NurMisuari vowed on Sunday to bring to the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation… »
By Keith Bacongco on October 22 2012 12:18 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 October) – I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to have witnessed and documented the most historic event for Mindanao, the signing of the Framework Agreement on… »
By Jesus G. Dureza on October 22 2012 12:08 am
DAVAO CITY (MIndaNews/21 October) — As I wrote this column yesterday, thousands of MNLF (Moro National Liberation Front) followers started flocking to the popular Crocodile Park outside the Davao City… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on October 22 2012 12:04 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 October) — It is too early in the day but assuming it’s all systems go and the Bangsamoro shall have been set up by 2016, what will… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on October 20 2012 7:15 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 October) — The Executive Order creating the 15-person Transition Commission (TransCom) that will prepare the groundwork for the Bangsamoro political entity by 2016 will be issued “in… »
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 Keith Bacongco on August 26 2012 5:39 am
PIKIT, North Cotabato(MindaNews/25 August) – Most villagers in a refugee camp here are no longer strangers to evacuation. They have “mastered” the art of evacuation even if tensions are still… »
By Pop M. Salahog on August 7 2012 7:44 am
Soldiers take a rest along the national highway in Crossing Salbo in Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Maguindanao on Monday, August 6, 2012. The national highway was closed to traffic following an… »
By Keith Bacongco on July 9 2012 7:34 am
Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) supporters from Datu Paglas town take their lunch in front of a chapel in Barangay Takepan, Pikit on Friday before heading to Camp Darapanan, Sultan… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on May 28 2012 3:54 pm
KUALA LUMPUR (MindaNew/28 May) — Datu Michael Mastura, senior panel member of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) gave copies of his new book, “Bangsamoro Quest: The Birth of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front,” to members of the government peace panel shortly before they took a break from their executive session Monday morning.
By Bong S. Sarmiento on May 5 2012 7:12 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/04 May) — The government wants greater public participation in the Mindanao peace process, Secretary Teresita Quintos-Deles of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on May 4 2012 7:34 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/03 May)— The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), under its new leader, Akihiko Tanaka, has vowed to increase aid to Mindanao once the government and the Moro Islamic… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on April 24 2012 9:51 pm
KUALA LUMPUR (MindaNews/24 April) – Declaring that the “status quo is unacceptable,” the Philippine government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front peace panels today agreed to work for the creation of… »
By Romy Elusfa on October 22 2011 6:28 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 October) — The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has requested the International Monitoring Team (IMT) to immediately conduct an investigation on the clash in Al Barka town… »
By Keith Bacongco on October 22 2011 6:22 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 October) – Three of the 19 government soldiers slain in Basilan on Tuesday have been transported to their respective hometowns in Mindanao, with their comrades rendering military… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on September 30 2011 7:56 am
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/29 September) — A military operation looms large against breakaway Moro rebel commander Ameril Umra Kato if he refuses to yield peacefully with the “impending formal declaration of… »
By Mindanews on September 4 2011 10:53 pm
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/04 September) – The Moros living in this city should be given a free hand in deciding their destiny, Khaled Musa, deputy chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation… »
By Mindanews on September 4 2011 7:32 am
ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanews/03 September) – “I am a peace lover, I am a peacemaker, in fact we went to the Supreme Court because we want peace,” Mayor Celso Lobregat said… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on August 30 2011 8:50 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/30 August) – A new group called “Christian Convergence” met behind closed door for three hours Monday with government peace panel chair Marvic Leonen, expressing their support for… »
By Ferdinandh B. Cabrera on August 10 2011 7:53 am
DATU PIANG, Maguindanao (MindaNews/9 August) – Four people were killed while 371 families have been reported to have fled their homes during intense firefights between a Moro Islamic Liberation Front… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on April 28 2011 1:55 pm
KUALA LUMPUR (MindaNews/28 April) – The smiles on the faces of the peace negotiators and members of the International Contact Group as they came out of the Penang Room of… »
By Mindanews on April 19 2011 8:38 am
Ustadz Amiril Umra Kato arrives on horseback at the interview venue Saturday somewhere in Maguindanao. MindaNews photo courtesy of Yam Palma/MPC | Read Story
By Keith Bacongco on February 12 2011 7:20 am
KABACAN, North Cotabato (MindaNews/11 February) – The provincial government of Cotabato will not intervene in the land dispute that has triggered clashes between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and… »
By Mindanews on February 7 2011 7:20 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/06 February) – The government peace panel views with “serious concern” the reported resignation of a known commander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and “looks forward… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on January 20 2011 12:09 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/19 January) – In contrast to the reported hostility between the indigenous peoples and the Moros in Kabacan town in North Cotabato, peaceful coexistence marks the relationship between… »
By Ferdinandh B. Cabrera on January 11 2011 1:29 pm
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/10 January) – Kidnappers who seized a businessman at gunpoint Saturday night at the roadside parking area of the city’s premier hotel are demanding “some amount” for his… »
By Mindanews on December 27 2010 12:01 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/26 December) — The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has doused hopes expressed by the Philippine government the stalled peace talks will resume by January 2011, with the… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on December 8 2010 7:46 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/07 December) — The Japanese government will continue with its role in the International Monitoring Team (IMT) deployed in Mindanao, its embassy today said in a statement. “The Government of Japan has decided to extend the tour of duty of Japan’s IMT contingent in response to the request of the Philippine Government for the IMT to stay for another three months from December 9, 2010,” the Japanese embassy said.
By Ferdinandh B. Cabrera on December 8 2010 7:45 am
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/07 December) – The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) is supporting moves for the resumption of peace talks between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on December 7 2010 6:41 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/06 December) — Fill your hunger and ease a child’s empty stomach this holiday season. Eating at Pizza Hut and Taco Bell branches in the country will… »
By Mindanews on September 21 2010 7:34 am
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/20 September) - The two-day peace summit that begins Monday afternoon, is aimed “at helping come up with a paradigm for peace and development thrusts that may serve… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on August 28 2010 8:02 am
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/27 August) – Thirty-seven families from a predominantly Moro village in President Roxas town in North Cotabato fled to safer grounds when some 50 suspected members of the… »