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BASILAN --- Aid workers distributed relief supplies on Saturday to hundreds of families displaced by the military’s extensive hunt for the group that perpetrated the July 31 bombing in Lamitan City.The government offensive against Abu Sayyaf militants in Mohammad Ajul town in Basilan was launched early this week following sightings there of terrorists blamed for the bomb attack that left 11 people dead, among them a soldier and five members of the Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Unit.The Humanitarian Emergency Assistance and Response Team (HEART), a disaster response contingent of the Au

MARAWI CITY – A total of 180 families who were left homeless by the five-month battle between government soldiers and local terrorists will benefit from housing projects put up by the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).On Thursday, August 10, ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman led the turnover ceremony of an initial 36 units of transitional shelters in Barangay Lumbaca Toros in Saguiran, Lanao del Sur.

MAGUINDANAO --- Brig. Gen.

COTABATO CITY ---Twenty one southern local government units were denied of the chance to bag the coveted 2018 Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) citation.Eleven of the 21 LGUs received SGLG awards last year while three, that of Parang and Upi towns in Maguindanao and the local government of Lamitan City, each got the same commendationin 2016 and, subsequently, in 2017.Sectors supporting the bid of the 21 LGUs for the 2018 SGLG award were disappointed when the executive department of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao received a memorandum from acting Local Government Secretary Eduar

COTABATO CITY – Various civil society organizations (CSOs), which attended the presentation of the R.A.

BASILAN --- Local officials commended the state security men killed July 31 preventing a terrorist on a bomb-laden van from getting through Lamitan City where a parade by thousands was being held.Lamitan City Vice Mayor Roderick Furigay said Monday the Sangguniang Panglungsod resolution was passed on August 1, a day after the botched bombing in their city proper.Furigay is the presiding chairperson of the Lamitan City council.Private 1stClass Samad Jumah of the Army’s 19thSpecial Forces Company and companions Adlan Abdullah, Muid Manda, Titing Omar and Herminio Gapo of the Citizens Armed Fo

MAGUINDANAO ---- More than 200 more new soldiers trained to propagate culture of peace will join the Army’s 6thInfantry Division to help in domestic military programs promoting Muslim-Christian unity.Brig. Gen.

COTABATO CITY --- Authorities are guarding closely three drug traffickers arrested for possession ofP6.8 million worth of shabu due to their reported links with the Islamic State-inspired Mauter terror cell.The suspects, Samsudin Camid, Ronnie Marohom and Raisuli Marohom, all ethnic Meranaos from Lanao del Sur, are detained in the office here of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao since they fell in an entrapment in Parang, Maguindanao on Thursday.Juvenal Azurin, director of PDEA-ARMM, said Saturday the three drug dealers were arrested after a tradeof

BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi – Leaders in Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) formed here on
Friday a new group to help President Duterte protect the island from the claws
of terrorism and violent extremism that have been plaguing Mindanao.

The group,
composed of local government executives, civil society groups and religious
sectors, moved to form the alliance, dubbed as Alliance for Genuine Unity in Mindanao
(AGUM), following the deadly bombing in Lamitan City that left 11 people dead,
including the alleged bomber on July 31.

BASILAN --- The driver of the bomb-laden van that exploded Tuesday in Lamitan City may have targeted a parade in a terror plot that vigilant Muslim militiamen prevented promptly.The moderate Sunni Muslims Adlan Abdullah, Muid Manda and Titing Omar of the Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Unit and Private 1stClass Samad Jumah of the 19thSpecial Forces Company, perished together in the incident.They died preventing the bomber from proceeding to Lamitan City to bomb a parade of no fewer than 2,000 school children and teachers commemorating the national nutrition month, according to sources in