VERA Files
Our 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.
By MindaNews
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/28 March) – UK Foreign Secretary William Hague hailed the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement for the Bangsamoro (CAB) Thursday.
By MindaNews MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/28 March) – Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird on Friday urged the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to continue working together to make the agreement they signed Thursday “a reality.” “Canada encourages both parties to the Agreement, and all Filipinos, to continue to work together to […]
By CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS, MindaNews KALAYAAN GARDENS, Malacanan Palace (MindaNews /27 March) — From the battlefields of Mindanao, the 17-year old peace negotiations between the Philippine government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) formally ended at 5:29 p.m. on Thursday, March 27, with the signing of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) […]
The Government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) signed the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamore (CAB) in Malacañan Thursday.
Speech
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His Excellency Benigno S. Aquino III
President of the Philippines
At the signing of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro
By CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS, MindaNews DATU PIANG, Maguindanao (MindaNews /27 March) – The signing of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) on Thursday in Malacañang after 17 years of on-and-off peace negotiations between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), comes at a most insecure time for Mindanao’s 27 provinces and […]
By MindaNews
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 27 March) – Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Gov. Mujiv Hataman hailed Thursday the signing of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), but cautioned that much needs to be done as there are still many challenges lying ahead for the envisioned Bangsamoro region.
By CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS, MindaNews DATU PIANG, Maguindanao (MindaNews/27 March) – The Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) that the Philippine government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will sign in Malacañang today (March 27) may seem like a complex set of documents that would pave the way for the creation of a new […]
Text and video by NECA REYES OFFICIALS of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) remembered the Jabidah Massacre by visiting Corregidor Island in Cavite where some 60 young Muslim men were killed 46 years ago. ARMM officials also built a Mindanao Garden of Peace in honor of the fallen Muslims, who had been recruited […]
By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES and AMIEL MARK CAGAYAN
BULDON, Maguindanao— Voters literally chased after ballot boxes in hotly contested towns in Maguindanao on barangay election day, while in others, there was hardly anyone outside the homes.