BANGSAMORO NEWS UPDATES

AWANG, Maguindanao -- The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao- Humanitarian Emergency Action Response Team (ARMM-HEART), on orders of ARMM Gov. Mujiv Hataman, is now on its way to Jolo to deliver relief and emergency assistance to victims of yesterday's fire.Initial reports said more than 2,000 families have been affected by the fires that hit Bus-Bus district, Barangay Lambayong and Walled City.Myrna Jo Henry, speaking for ARMM-HEART, said relief workers will distributed food packs and non-food times for the affected families.Photos below from Ms.

COTABATO CITY -- Hundreds of Meranao families affected by last year’s hostilities in Marawi City received food from a humanitarian program addressing poverty in impoverished barangays.Some of the recipient-families are residents of the hinterland Butig town in Lanao del Sur, ravaged by conflicts sparked by the hoisting there in 2014 of the black Islamic State flag by the Maute terror group.Workers of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao-Bangsamoro Regional Inclusive Development for Growth and Empowerment, most known as ARMM-BRIDGE, also distributed food to families in Lanao del Sur’s Pi

MAGUINDANAO --- Hundreds of persons with disabilities benefitted from the humanitarian support extended by the Maguindanao provincial government during the July 18-19 summit in Buluan town.The two-day PWD summit was organized by the office of Maguindanao Gov.

COTABATO CITY - Old employees of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) want their constitutional right-to-security-of-tenure upheld, amid imminent takeover by a new administration to run a Bangsamoro Government in the ARMM.A group of ARMM employees said they rushed to Manila on Wednesday to assert their collective rights under the equal-protection clause of the 1987 Constitution, before the marathon hearings of the Bicameral Committee Conference, now almost done on the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) in ARMM.Once enacted by Congress, the law may be signed into law in time for the Third

COTABATO CITY - More than 7,000 domestic and foreign tourists have visited the now eight-week Yakan model village here where there are two national treasures as bonus attractions.The duo, Yakan cloth weaver Ambalang Ausalin, 75, and the 78-year-old kulintang musician Uwang Adhas, are among what visitors would like see, besides the cultural shows depicting the ethnicity of the native inhabitants of Basilan province in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.Designated settlers in the popular Yakan model village here prayed for peace in gatherings there the past three days to highlight the

COTABATO CITY --- Some 6,000 teachers deployed in five southern provinces in the past five years are now actively helping propagate interfaith solidarity among schoolchildren in support of the government's Mindanao peace efforts.They are now handling classes in remote barrios in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao covering Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur, both in mainland Mindanao, and in the island provinces of Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi.Lawyer Rasol Mitmug, Jr., ARMM’s regional education secretary, said Friday the latest batch of duly licensed public school mentors enlisted by his dep

MAGUINDANAO --- Authorities have warned the public anew to brace for possible attacks on non-military targets by misguided Islamic militants.A loud blast ripped through the town center of Datu Paglas late Wednesday, just a week after four gunmen got killed in clashes in a barangay a kilometer away, also in the same town.No one was killed or hurt in the explosion but the incident triggered panic among villagers, still recovering from fear caused by last week's hostilities in the municipality that Islamic State-inspired gunmen instigated.Citing initial feedback by probers, the Police Regional

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao --The Joint Task Force Central continued to launch military operation against the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) and to DAESH Inspired Toraife Group last Sunday, July 8, 2018, at Brgy Malingao, Shariff Saydona Mustapha in Maguindanao.The operation killed 12 BIFF rebels from air and artillery fires at Sitios Pandan, Mungkas and Bulod of Brgy Malingao, where 12 of those killed were identified.Among the BIFF killed wereand Baser Alon, Nurdin Kalun, Kemi Jainudin, Wahed Anuwar, Bensar Ali, Arapat Gemal, Bedo Gamadil, Wari Brahim, Bakar Seral, Tato Menta, an

MAGUINDANAO --- A Moro father and his three children perished in a conflagration that razed five houses in Sultan Kudarat town before dawn Tuesday.Chief Supt. Graciano Mijares of the Police Regional Office-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao identified the fatalities as Daemus Araneta and his children, Vina, Dagul and Mujahid.Dagul and Mujahid were elementary grade pupils while Vina was in Kindergarten school yet.The victims’ house in Barangay Katuli in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao was one of five houses hit by fire at about 2and00 a.m.

COTABATO CITY –
About 6,000 public school teachers have been hired since Governor Mujiv Hataman
of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) took his seat in the
regional government in December 2011.

The ARMM
regional government invested heavily in providing quality education to
Bangsamoro children. In recent years, the ARMM’s Education department
(DepEd-ARMM) has made major improvements in the region’s educational system.