One-third of Basilan villages areas of concern
By MELISSA LUZ LOPEZ POLL watchdog Citizens Coalition for ARMM Electoral Reforms Inc (C-CARE) says one in every three barangays in Basilan are potential areas of concern in Monday’s elections […]
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 MELISSA LUZ LOPEZ POLL watchdog Citizens Coalition for ARMM Electoral Reforms Inc (C-CARE) says one in every three barangays in Basilan are potential areas of concern in Monday’s elections […]
By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES
COTABATO CITY— The Department of Interior and Local Government in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao is collaborating with election watchdogs and all local peace and order councils in the region to monitor the barangay elections on Monday.
By VINCE NONATO AS in previous elections, police and military personnel will serve as election tellers in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) in Monday’s barangay polls, in place […]
Podcast by BABYLYN KANO-OMAR BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi—The Commission on Elections and local government units are recommending that 100 of the province’s 203 villages be classified as areas of immediate concern in […]
Podcast by BABYLYN KANO-OMAR BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi—The Commission on Elections and local government units are recommending that 100 of the province’s 203 villages be classified as areas of immediate concern in […]
Podcast by BABYLYN KANO-OMAR
BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi—Barangay captains in this town said they were willing to give P10,000 from the village coffers to help defray expenses in the upcoming barangay elections, as long as the national government gives them their share of the Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA).
By JONATHAN DE SANTOS
THE government panel negotiating peace with Moro secessionists said the government is protecting the peace process and will apply the full force of the law against groups trying to derail it.
By CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS, MindaNews DAVAO CITY–The standoff in Zamboanga City between government and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) under founding chair Nur Misuari could have ended on Day 5, Friday, […]
Podcasts by BABYLYN KANO-OMAR BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi—The encounter between members of the Moro National Liberation Front and government troops in Zamboanga City has left Tawi-Tawi in bad shape. Airlines and shipping […]
By YEN BLANCO DELGADO
ZAMBOANGA CITY—Residents of Zamboanga City are bracing for the worst, after the standoff between the military and the Moro National Liberation Front remained unresolved by nightfall.