‘As long as we see small lights, we continue to hope’
It’s the morning of February 7th in Davao City: staff members of forumZFD Philippines are still busy arranging the last details of...
Bangsamoro women want draft laws translated to languages in the BARMM
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 29 January) -- Women groups across the seven-province, three-city Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao are asking Members of...
[MINDANAO 2022] Bangsamoro in transition: all Moro liberation fronts now represented in BTA
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 03 January) -- Many had given up hope of seeing Moro revolutionary leaders Nur Misuari, Al Haj Murad...
Iqbal urges Marcos to hasten amnesty program for MILF members
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 09 October 2022) – The chair of the Peace Implementing Panel of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is...
Non-Moro IP women assert agenda for the Bangsamoro IP Code
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 09 October) -- “We have been waiting for three years for the passage of the Indigenous Peoples’ (IP)...
Bangsamoro’s “new” Cabinet: mostly reappointed; Misuari’s daughter is Deputy Minister for Social Services
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 Sept) – The “new” set of Cabinet members of the extended Bangsamoro Transition Authority (2022 to 2025) is...
Bangsamoro desk in MinDA main office in Davao; MinDA desk in BARMM
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 September) – A Member of Parliament (MP) has filed a resolution at the Parliament of the Bangsamoro...
Proposed Bangsamoro Electoral Code: 25 is minimum age for Chief Minister
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews /25 September) – The minimum age requirement to be elected Chief Minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao...
Bangsamoro Parliament: no majority, no minority, ‘just one BTA’
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 20 September) – When the 80-member Parliament of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) begins its regular sessions this...
Photographs, Memories and Trajectories: the Bangsamoro on September 15, 2032
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 20 September) – Three elections to the 80-member Bangsamoro Parliament shall have passed by September 15, 2032, the...
Marcos to the Bangsamoro: “We walk this path together”
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 15 September) – “We walk this path together” even if the path to lasting peace is difficult, President...
Leonen: “The Supreme Court finally comes to the Bangsamoro”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 12 September) – Seven justices of the Supreme Court, including the Chief Justice, visited Marawi City on September...
Nur – Murad meeting: “A great day for the Bangsamoro homeland”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 11 September) – “This is a great day, a great day for the Bangsamoro homeland,” the 83-year-old Nur...
Marcos to address Bangsamoro Transition Authority in Cotabato City on Sept. 15
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 11 September) – President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. is the special guest at the inaugural session of the Parliament...
Children of the Bangsamoro Revolution: their battlefield is Parliament (2)
SPECIAL REPORT Last of two parts DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 04 September) -- Nurredha Misuari says that in the meeting with Presidential Peace Adviser...
Children of the Bangsamoro Revolution: their battlefield is Parliament (1)
SPECIAL REPORT1st of two parts DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 03 September) – The fathers waged an armed revolution, hunted in the battlefield...
Galvez: “BTA of a united BARMM” to “harmonize” all Bangsamoro peace agreements
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 03 September) – Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez refers to the newly-constituted Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) as the...
Galvez says MILF and MNLF “united” under the new BTA
AWANG, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao (MindaNews / 21 August) – Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez sees a “brighter outlook” for the Bangsamoro...
17 Mindanawon peace partners honored by OPAPRU
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 17 May) – Seventeen Mindanawons were among 38 peace partners honored by the Office of the Presidential Adviser...
Pacquiao on peace talks with NDF: problems are not resolved if we don’t talk
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 16 February) – If he had not become a boxer, Emmanuel Pacquiao would probably have taken up arms and join...
BARMM’s Chief Minister: bigger challenge is how to sustain gains of the peace process
GENERAL SANTOS CITY(MindaNews / 23 January) – The bigger challenge in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is how to...
Combatant awaiting decommissioning: “They are lucky they were not born during wartime and did...
CAMP DARAPANAN, Maguindanao (MindaNews / 08 Nov) --- “Nay, ang hirap po pala pag-ipinanganak ka sa panahon ng gyera ano, lalaki ka rin na...
Iqbal: Only 400 out of supposed 6,000-strong Bangsamoro joint peace security team trained
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 07 Nov) -- A 6,000-strong Joint Peace Security Team (JPST) tasked to secure peace in the Bangsamoro communities is supposed to...
Peace group to BARMM, MILF leaders: use extension period to deliver promises to Bangsamoro...
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 30 October) – The peace advocacy group Mindanao People’s Caucus has called on the Bangsamoro government and the Moro Islamic...
Robredo to resume peace talks with NDF if elected President but…
CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews / 16 October) --For Vice President and presidential aspirant Leni Robredo, the only road to peace with the communist rebels...
MILF vows to help make 2022 polls peaceful in Bangsamoro region
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews /16 October) --- The former rebel group Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will help the military in securing and ensuring a...
SPECIAL REPORT: 6.5 billion pesos in first 30 months: investing in BARMM is...
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 25 September) -- Thirty months after the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) was inaugurated -- 18 months of...
Bangsamoro transition extension bill passed on 3rd reading; next hurdle: bicam conference
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 Sept) – By a vote of 187 -0-0 , the House of Representatives on Wednesday passed on third and...
House OKs bill extending Bangsamoro transition period until 2025 but differs with Senate on...
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 14 Sept) – Voting viva voce, the House of Representatives passed on second reading Monday night House Bill 10121 extending...
Senate OKs Bangsamoro transition extension; next President to appoint BTA members serving until 2025
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 August) – With one ‘no’ vote and two abstentions, the Senate late Wednesday afternoon passed on second reading Senate...
Duterte’s last SONA: mum on Marawi compensation and Bangsamoro transition extension
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 28 July) – President Rodrigo Duterte said nothing about the Marawi compensation and Bangsamoro transition extension bills during his sixth...
Duterte delivers last SONA 3 years to the day he signed the Bangsamoro law
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 26 July) – President Rodrigo Roa Duterte will deliver his sixth and last State of the Nation Address (SONA) at...
Law grads in Mindanao to take bar exams in 5 Mindanao testing centers
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 10 July) – For the first time in history, Law graduates nationwide will no longer troop to Manila to take...
CSOs reiterate appeal to Duterte: certify as urgent bills extending Bangsamoro transition period
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 09 July) --- About two dozen civil society organizations have reiterated their appeal to President Rodrigo Duterte to certify as...
PNoy Aquino’s peace legacy: “That name will be Bangsamoro”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 June) – Sunday, October 7, 2012 was a historic day for the Moro people as it marked the first...
Only 3 weeks left for Congress to decide on Bangsamoro transition extension
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 16 May) – The Senate Committee on Local Government on Friday ended its hearings on the two bills seeking the...
Moro wives form co-op to champion productivity, peace in Sultan Kudarat town
PALIMBANG, Sultan Kudarat (MindaNews / 24 April) --- Dozens of married Moro women in this impoverished Muslim-dominated town have stepped out of the shadows...
Remembering Zen Malang: Moro human rights lawyer, humanitarian, patriot
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 20 March) – Only a few friends knew he was going to go anytime soon, and when he succumbed to...
Don’t rush, trader says of Bangsamoro peace transition
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 19 March) -- A senior executive from Mindanao’s private sector has expressed support for the extension of the transition deadline...
Lanao’s civil society orgs hold peace caravan for transition extension
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 14 March) – Representatives of civil society organizations from Lanao del Sur and Lanao del Norte on Saturday a caravan...
Only 17 session days left for Congress to act on Bangsamoro transition extension
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 09 March) – The two houses of Congress have only 17 session days from March 9 until its adjournment sine...
Dimaporo bill: extend Bangsamoro transition period until 2028 to ensure success of normalization process
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 19 December) – Lanao del Norte Rep. Khalid Dimaporo has filed the fourth bill proposing an extension of the transition...
TPMT: Bangsamoro peace pact implementation “fundamentally on track” but some elements “require more time...
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 December) – An independent body monitoring the implementation of the peace agreement between the Philippine government (GPH) and the...
Only 45 session days left to act on bills to extend Bangsamoro transition to...
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 06 December) -- Two bills have been filed in the House of Representatives seeking to extend the transition period in...
Galvez: Duterte for extension of Bangsamoro transition; Hataman proposes review and roadmap
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 28 November) -- President Rodrigo Duterte is asking Congress to extend the transition period of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in...
Theme of Mindanao Week of Peace amid pandemic: “Dialogue Towards Harmony”
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...
ANGAY-ANGAY LANG: Kalinaw Mindanaw: The Story of the GRP-MNLF Peace Process, 1975-1996 (1)
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...
Mid-term review recommends extension of Bangsamoro transition until June 2025
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 12 October) – A mid-term review of the three-year transition in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) listed...
ANGAY-ANGAY LANG: (2) Pamalandong sa Peace Negotation GPH-MNLF, 1975-1987
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...
ANGAY-ANGAY LANG: (1) Pamalandong sa Peace Negotation GPH-MNLF, 1975-1987
1st of two parts
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 04 October) -- This was written in 1992, viewed from the government side. Now, this is a...