BANGSAMORO NEWS UPDATES

MAGUINDANAO --- Militants executed gangland style two ethnic Tedurays and wounded two soldiers in separate attacks hours before the bombing Sunday night in Isulan, Sultan Kudarat.A 16-year-old student, John Mark Luda, was killed and more than 10 others were hurt when a powerful blast ripped through a commercial hub in Isulan, capital town of Sultan Kudarat, at past 7and00 p.m.

COTABATO CITY --- Residents of two conflict-stricken barangays in Marawi City now have additional water supply facilities built with the help of private benefactors.Lanao del Sur Vice Gov. Mamintal Adiong, Jr. said Saturday they launched early this week the 20,000-liter stainless water tank projects for internally-displaced families in Barangays Pagasa and Buadi Itowa in Marawi City.The projects were joint humanitarian interventions of the Lanao del Sur provincial government, the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation and the Pepsi Cola Products Philippines, Inc.

SULTAN KUDARAT --- Local officials will not oppose an extension of the Mindanao-wide martial law as a possible consequence of the deadly bombing Tuesday night in Isulan town in Sultan Kudarat.Three were killed while more than 30 others, two of them soldiers and a militiaman, were injured in the attack that marred the town’s good harvest Hamungaya Festival.

MAGUINDANAO - Two rival groups in the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters clashed on Monday in Shariff Saidona Mustapha town, sending villagers running for their lives.The groups of Ninio Ebrahim and Commander Bisaya are squabbling for control of areas whose residents they subject to collection of protection money on periodic basis.Local officials said they figured in running gunfights Sunday in Sitio Nanas, Barangay Pamalian in Shariff Saidona Mustapha town.The municipality is located in the second district of Maguindanao, where there is presence of the outlawed BIFF.Ebrahim belong to on

MAGUINDANAO --- Peace activists were elated with closure of the 30-year hostility between the 6thInfantry Division and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front that exacted hundreds of fatalities on both sides.Bobby Benito, director of the Regional Reconciliation and Unification Commission-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao said Monday it was something he never thought would happen.Brig. Gen.

COTABATO CITY -- The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao will construct core shelters for 12,000 poor households before it is replaced in 2019 with a Bangsamoro political entity.The Moro Islamic Liberation Front will manage the upcoming Bangsamoro government.Reports obtained from state auditors Saturday stated that the ARMM-Bangsamoro Regional Inclusive Development for Growth and Empowerment (BRIDGE) program is presently constructing hundreds of houses for poor families in five provinces in the autonomous region.The autonomous region covers Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur and the islands of

COTABATO CITY – To improve shelter and living conditions of poor families, about 12,000 households in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) will receive core shelters from the regional government’s anti-poverty program.The 7,000 family-beneficiaries in 2018 and 5,000 in 2017 are recipients of ARMM’s Bangsamoro Regional Inclusive Development for Growth and Empowerment (ARMM-BRIDGE), or ‘Apat na Dapat’ program that combats poverty and uplifts the living condition of the poorest households through the provision of basic needs.On Thursday, August 23, ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman led th

MAGUINDANAO — The central committee of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front has chosen Hadji Murad Ebrahim to sit as chief minister of a transition government for the proposed new Bangsamoro region.The new region will replace the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao based on its charter, the Bangsamoro Organic Law.The consensus for Murad to be the Bangsamoro chief minister was reached during an urgent meeting Tuesday by members of the MILF’s central leadership core and senior commanders from across Mindanao in Camp Darapanan in Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao.Murad is the revolutionary figu

MATANOG, Maguindanao – Mayor Kits Guro today led the 3-day grand celebration of Eud’ul Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) here with 50 heads of cows slaughtered for his poor inhabitants.Guided by a local ordinance passed by the town’s Sangguniang Bayan, the local government slaughtered cows to be distributed equally to all his constituents. This is a culture that we should espouse and share with our Iranun sisters and brothers, Guro said. We Iranuns must preserve this culture.

COTABATO CITY – Islamic Relief Philippines, a faith-inspired international today
slaughtered about 43 cows at the Halal slaughterhouse here for distribution to
about more 1,800 Marawi crisis affected families living in tents in the city.

Maryann
Zamora, speaking for Islamic Relief Philippines, said the distribution will
Wednesday and Thursday is in celebration of Eid-ul Adha or the Feast of
Sacrifice of Muslim faithful.