The Moro insurgency is one of the longest-running conflicts in the southern Philippines. Although several peace agreements have been brokered with the help of third parties, progress on implementation ...

COTABATO CITY, Philipppines --- Officials see as “vote of confidence†to the on-going talks between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front Monday’s launching of the World Bank and ...

The work for the Bangsamoro Basic Law has begun. The 15-person Transition Commission is the one tasked to produce a draft of the Basic Law that the President would certify as priority bill for ...

When the government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) signed the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro on October 15, 2012, many rejoiced. A peace deal seemed ...

Cardinal Orlando Quevedo, archbishop of the predominantly Muslim city of Cotabato in the southern Philippines, has called on peace advocates to continue calling for the passage of a law that will ...

COTABATO CITY — Prominent stakeholders have urged the Bangsamoro interim government leadership to call off an impending move to split the Ministry of Basic, Higher, and Technical Education (MBHTE) ...

(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Congress is running out of time to scrutinise and approve the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law as it has yet to receive the document from Malacanang that seeks to establish a new ...

The long-running insurgency of the Muslims of Mindanao and Sulu archipelago has been a pressing national security concern for the Philippines. There several peace agreements have been settled but ...

COTABATO CITY—The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will cease to exist once the Bangsamoro entity that will replace the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) comes into being in 2016, the ...