Amid allegations of massive poll cheating in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, President Aquino’s anointed bets, now the region’s new governor and vice governor-elect, welcomed the scrutiny but appealed for sobriety.
A free-for-all fist fight between supporters of two rival political parties left six of them wounded and another one admitted into a hospital for a gunshot wound during Monday’s balloting in Maguindanao.
A barangay (village) official and two other family members were killed in an ambush by still unidentified armed men in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, barely three weeks before the May 13 midterm elections.
More than 1,000 teachers in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao are finally being paid salaries that had been partly withheld from them for years, but the back wages are not yet necessarily being released in full.
At least four people were killed while about a dozen others were injured in a three-way smashup between a passenger van, a passenger jeep, and a military truck in Pikit, North Cotabato on Friday, authorities said.
The head of the government peace panel in peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front has called on members of Moro royalty to unite and come up with a paper on the kind of roles they would like to play under the future Bangsamoro government.
Some 150 motorized boats, decked in colorful decor seen only in Moro areas and carrying about 2,000 people, will greet President Benigno Aquino when he visits the city on his way to the main camp of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in nearby Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao on Monday.
At least two men were killed and another was wounded when armed groups belonging to rival Moro factions clashed over territorial claims in a village bordering North Cotabato and Maguindanao on Wednesday, according to the military.
The December 18 road accident in Davao Oriental — which injured six Maguindanao doctors and their driver on the way to a medical mission for typhoon Pablo victims — has not deterred the province’s health workers from holding another mission there, the Maguindanao provincial health chief said on Friday.
The task of rebuilding Compostela Valley from the devastating effects of Typhoon Pablo would take “years and billions of pesos” to complete, the provincial governor said Friday as local officials and residents tried to cope with the rising death toll.
The disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of Moro Islamic Liberation Front guerrillas could become a bottleneck in the events leading up to the final peace agreement but it is one of the most important steps for peace, British Ambassador Stephen Lillie said.
Moro government leaders will fly to Barcelona, Spain in a bid to draw lessons from the Catalan autonomy, which could be used as input in drafting the final peace deal with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) will spend about P10 million on a massive information campaign aimed at making ordinary people understand what the framework agreement is all about.
