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Category: ARMM Watch

ARMM WatchOur special coverage of the 2013 polls in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao, where contending political clans have been notorious for warlike tactics, fraud and election violence. VERA Files has partnered with MindaNews and iWatch.

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    Categories ARMM Watch Editor's Pick News

    PHOTOS: Marawi City, 30 days of misery

    By Luis Liwanag  |  Jun 23, 2017 5:30 PM

    Photojournalist Luis Liwanag captures Marawi City today, on the 30th day of the crisis.​

    Marawi City, Maute group

  • COPS AS BEI. Police personnel handled the special election for more than 700 voters in Katuli, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao on Saturday, May 14, 2016. MindaNews photo by FERDINANDH B. CABRERA
    Categories ARMM Watch News PHL Vote 2016 Stories

    In Maguindanao’s special polls, voters prefer cops as BEI members

    May 16, 2016 2:07 PM

    By FERDINANDH B. CABRERA, MindaNews SULTAN KUDARAT, Maguindanao — Voters here say the next elections in this town should have police officers instead of teachers as members of the Board of Election Inspectors (BEIs) as the special elections Saturday in Barangay Katuli started and ended with no untoward incident. “Voting went on smoothly without delay and […]

    2016 elections

  • Ghazali Jaafar, 1st Vice Chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (right) introduces the other members of the MILF Central Committee to presidential candidate and Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte during his visit in Camp Darapanan, Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao on February 27, 2016. MindaNews photo by TOTO LOZANO
    Categories ARMM Watch PHL Vote 2016 Stories Top Stories

    MILF’s Murad to Duterte: ‘We will partner with you and your administration’

    May 16, 2016 11:57 AM

    By CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS, MindaNews DAVAO City – The chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has congratulated presumptive President-elect Rodrigo Duterte for his “historic victory” during the May 9 Presidential election and vowed to “partner with you and your administration.” Addressing the letter dated May 10 to “His Excellency… President-elect Duterte,” MILF chair […]

    Peace Process, Rodrigo Duterte

  • Categories ARMM Watch News PHL Vote 2016 PWD Vote Stories

    No accessible polling places for PWDs in Maguindanao

    May 08, 2016 2:00 PM

    By FREDERIC LORENZO UPI, Maguindanao – Sixty-year-old Herminio Lacave will walk two kilometers to cast his vote tomorrow. Born with a smaller left leg, Lacave calls on the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to make it easy for persons with disabilities (PWDs) to vote. “Bilang isang PWD, nanawagan ako sa Comelec na bigyan kami ng isang […]


  • Categories ARMM Watch News PHL Vote 2016 Stories

    Minor problems reported in Tawi-Tawi vote-counting machines

    May 07, 2016 3:38 PM

    By YANG AMING Podcast By BABYLYN KANO-OMAR BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi — Ten of the 11 island municipalities here appear set for the presidential elections Monday, save for Mapun, where vote-counting machines (VCMs) are yet to be tested. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday tested 81 machines in the capital Bongao, and found only one did not print […]


  • Countdown to Bangsamoro, in the town of Upi in Maguindanao, before the Mamasapano incident
    Categories ARMM Watch Banner

    THE AQUINO LEGACY: A thwarted peace

    Mar 10, 2016 9:41 AM

    By JAKE SORIANO FOR a time during the presidency of Benigno Simeon Aquino III, it seemed peace in Mindanao was finally within grasp. On Oct. 5, 2012, the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) signed the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB). A crucial guiding document in the peace […]

    bangsamoro basic law, BBL, the aquino legacy

  • Categories ARMM Watch Top Stories

    Pass Bangsamoro Law, UN envoy urges

    Aug 03, 2015 4:08 PM

    By JAKE SORIANO A visiting United Nations envoy has urged Philippine lawmakers to pass the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) “as urgently as possible,” saying failure to do so would lead to further violence in the region where “displacement has become the pattern of life” for many. “A viable, inclusive and comprehensive peace process is essential […]

    IDPs

  • Categories ARMM Watch Top Stories

    Maguindanao ‘bakwits’ vulnerable to trafficking

    Apr 10, 2015 1:50 PM

    Text, photo and video by JAKE SORIANO A civil society leader and peace advocate warned of a rise in cases of human trafficking among evacuees in Maguindanao, with the continuing conflict in the province. Amina Rasul, president of the Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy (PCID), made the comment during the launch of Friends of […]

    ARMM, Friends of Peace, maguindanao, Mamasapano

  • Categories ARMM Watch Top Stories Yahoo

    Maguindanao town police warn residents vs trafficking modus

    Jan 14, 2015 12:50 PM

    By JAKE SORIANO UPI, Maguindanao–The local police here warned residents against accepting job offers to work as housekeepers in Marawi City due to reported cases of exploitation there. The Upi Police Station Women and Children Protection Desk (WCPD) said illegal recruiters and traffickers have been preying on poor women minors from the barrios. With the […]

    human trafficking, maguindanao, Trafficking

  • Categories ARMM Watch

    A mother’s wish granted: “Mujahid will not grow up to be a sniper”

    Mar 28, 2014 11:23 AM

    by TOTO LOZANO, MindaNews CAMP DARAPANAN, Sultan Kudarat (MindaNews / 28 March) — The mood was festive as thousands of Moro men and women gathered at the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s (MILF) Camp Darapanan to celebrate the signing of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) between the government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front Thursday […]


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