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COTABATO CITY --- Efforts to rebuild into a peaceful town the shabu capital of Basilan is gaining headway and stakeholders are expecting livelihood opportunities to come along as the situation in the area improves.The first termer mayor of the once troubled seaside Maluso town, Hanie Bud, and Gov.

MAGUINDANAO --- Bandits abducted four people, two of them policewomen, in Patikul town in the hostile Sulu province on Sunday.Reports obtained Monday from the Regional Police Office-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in Parang town in Maguindanao stated that PO1 Benierose Alvarez and PO1 Dina Gumahad were snatched along with two villagers, Jakosalem Ahamad Blas and Faisal Ahidji.Alvarez and Gumahad both belong to the Police Regional Office-9 in Zamboanga City, according to senior police and military officers in Sulu.The four kidnap victims were riding a red tricycle with body number 1899

MAGUINDANAO ---- The more than 5,000 scholars of the provincial government of Maguindanao are euphoric since last week over the admission to the Philippine Bar of a co-beneficiary, the program’s first.The now lawyer Faizah Gladys Kadon-Tejero, 28, graduated from law school with the help of the Maguindanao Program for Education and Community Empowerment, or MagPEACE, which Gov.

MAGUINDANAO ---- President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday promised to make Mindanao a genuine land reform area to solve the Moro issue and other domestic decades-old conflicts blamed on poverty and neglect.While in Buluan town in Maguindanao, Duterte also announced that he will resign if Congress fails to approve by May the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law, meant to put a durable closure to the nagging Moro issue hounding Mindanao since the 1960s.The bill, crafted by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the government, is a product of 18 years of talks that were repeatedly punctuated by deadl

MAGUINDANAO --- Four were badly wounded in a gunfight Tuesday between two groups squabbling for control of an island about a kilometer off seaside Lantawan town in Basilan.Chief Supertindent Graciano Mijares of the Police Regional Office-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao said Wednesday the wounded men belong to one of the feuding groups that figured in the hostilities.The injured Baser Hasim Sagdi, Michael Majindi Amiril, Jalal Damsalin and Amiril Mawali, were immediately rushed to a hospital in Isabela City, about 20 kilometers away from Lantawan.They belong to one of two groups --- sep

MAGUINDANAO --- Five more towns yielded Tuesday more than a hundred unlicensed firearms, part of a cache President Rodrigo Duterte will inspect in Maguindanao’s capitol today, April 25.The firearms were turned in by local officials in Datu Anggal Midtimbang, Talayan, Guindulungan, Datu Saudi and Pandag towns, all in the second district of Maguindanao, in separate rites organized by units of the 6thInfantry Division and the Police Regional Office-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.Members of the provincial peace and order council and officers of 6thID and PRO-ARMM will present to Duterte n

MAGUINDANAO --- The police is now in custody of an incumbent barangay chairman in Basilan implicated in the brutal killing Saturday night of a rival in the May 14 polls and four others.Hermie Asao, chairman of Barangay Kamamburingan in Ungkaya Pukan, Basilan was nabbed after a 13-hour search by combined units of the police and the Army’s 104thBrigade.Witnesses have tagged him as leader of no fewer than 10 men who killed the former barangay chairman of Kamamburingan, Usang Alibasa, and four followers named Asani, Andatun, Jamalun, and Matindo.Alibasa was to contest the reelection bid of Asao

TALITAY,
Maguindanao -- Another symbolic ceremony of Balik Baril Program happened at
the municipal hall of Talitay, Maguindanao yesterday, around 9and00am of 21 April
2018, in response to the call of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte to surrender
loose firearms.

BASILAN ---- The Abu Sayyaf in this island province only has three commanders now, all hesitant to surrender the way more than 200 followers did in recent months due to criminal cases they face in courts.The followers of the three Abu Sayyaf leaders --- Radzmil, Abdullah and Furudji --- surrendered through the joint efforts of Lt. Gen. Carlito Galvez, Jr., chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Brig. Gen.

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao – The local government of Sultan Kudarat and Sultan Mastura in Maguindananao turned over 45 and 31 loose firearms, respectively, at the Municipal Hall of Sultan Kudarat on April 17, the Army said.Sultan Kudarat Mayor Datu Shameem B. Mastura and Sultan Mastura Mayor Datu Rauf T. Mastura turned over the firearms collected from the residents of their towns to 37thInfantry Battalion under 603rdInfantry Brigade in a ceremony organized by Nuling Inter-Agency Task Force.Brig. Gen. Jess B.