Leaders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) continued to drum up support for a peace agreement that they signed with the government to end decades of a bloody separatist war in Mindanao, saying “it’s impossible not to succeed.”
A group of environmentalists went trekking in Camp Iranun, an abandoned Moro rebel sanctuary in Barira, Maguindanao, to fulfill its goal of planting 800,000 to a million trees and reforest close to 200,000 hectares of denuded land in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao office is reminding local government officials to make sure they implement their development projects well in accordance with the goals set in the “bottoms up budgeting” introduced by the Philippine government.
After a week-long Army and police covert operation, another suspect in the infamous 2009 Maguindanao massacre was arrested in Mamasapano town in Maguindanao on Sunday.
Fifty selected villages in the five-province Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) will be recipients of a barangay government center worth P10 million.
Faced with frequent weather disturbances and natural disasters, concerned sectors in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao agreed to boost the Balik-Kalikasan Program of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
Officials of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) on Wednesday urged Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya to investigate what they described as the slow rehabilitation of the Cotabato airport.
On July 2010, President Benigno Aquino III assembled a new panel to resume peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), with Marvic Leonen, dean of the University of the Philippines College of Law, as chair. A month later, the President announced that Malaysia would remain as facilitator of the talks.
Farmers in Maguindanao have not been able to replant their rice fields because of a dry spell that started in February.
March 8 is National Women’s Day, pursuant to Republic Act No. 6949 signed on Apr. 10, 1990. According to the National Statistics Office, about 49.6 percent or 45.6 million of the country’s 92.1 million population were women as of 2010. The National Capital Region (96 males per 100 females) and Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (99 males per 100 females) were the only regions that reported more females than males. Marielle Medina, Inquirer Research
The peace and order council of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) is seeking the replacement of the head of the police’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) there and his men for the Feb. 23 arrest of a senior rebel leader.
Leaders of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) have joined the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in calling for calm and sobriety following the arrest of an MILF ground commander and his escorts here on Sunday.
The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao government has set aside a total of P6 million in financial aid every month starting January to at least 12 municipalities without Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) allocations.
