BANGSAMORO NEWS UPDATES

COTABATO CITY -- The military has assured the beleaguered personnel of the Basilan District Engineering Office of protection from bandits trying to sabotage high-ticket projects in the province.Two ethnic Yakan workers of the Basilan DEO were killed while two others were seriously wounded in an ambush in Lamitan City last week by members of the Abu Sayyaf.The Islamic State-inspired Abu Sayyaf is opposing the construction of more roads, schools and agricultural facilities in remote Basilan barangays from whose residents it collects money from at gunpoint to sustain its needs.Lt. Gen.

MAGUINDANAO -- For
many years now, peace has been elusive to thousands of residents of Maguindanao
province. The recurrent armed conflict between government troops and insurgent groups
in the area has been affecting the lives of countless families, including
children.In
the Municipality of Datu Salibo,
evacuees from the remote Barangay Tee have sought refuge along the
highway of the nearby Barangay Butilen, the former being one of the most
affected villages. But what were supposedly temporary shelters for the evacuees

MAGUINDANAO - Besides providing food, shelter, water and electricity, the government is also constructing houses for Moro families in the province to hasten their recovery from conflicts and calamities.Dyan Sangkula Jumaide, regional agrarian reform secretary of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, said Tuesday they turned over last month to ethnic Maguindanaon families 24 houses they built as part of ARMM’s Human Development Action Program.The socialized housing component of HDAP, handled by the Department of Agrarian Reform-ARMM, is just one of the community-empowerment initiatives o

Two personnel of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH ARMM) were killed while building infrastructure projects for the people of the ARMM.An Abu Sayyaf gunman stood in the middle of the Basilan Circumferential Road and shot a DPWH ARMM dump truck and a transit mixer with an M203 assault rifle, killing the drivers of both heavy equipment vehicles.

MAGUINDANAO ---- Gunmen ambushed two police teams --- one in Basilan and the other in Lanao del Sur --- in separate attacks Thursday.Chief Supt.

MARAWI CITY – As the government rebuilds this city, President Rodrigo Duterte led the distribution of 400 certificates of acceptance and occupancy of transitional shelters to residents left homeless by the five-month battle between government troops and local terrorist groups.ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman, together with national and local officials, witnessed the ceremony held on Tuesday, January 30, at the site of the temporary resettlement in Barangay Sagonsongan, Marawi City, which is about 4.4 kilometers away from the city center.Marcelino Escalada Jr., general manager of the National Hou

COTABATO CITY --- Key members of the global Freemasons fraternity have urged fraternal brothers to continue supportingdiplomatic efforts of putting a negotiated closure to the Moro issue hounding southern Mindanao for 50 years now.Maguindanao Gov.

COTABATO CITY -Some 3,500 Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and their families affected
by the siege in Marawi City are set to receive assistance from the Overseas
Workers Welfare Administration in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (OWWA-ARMM).

MAGUINDANAO -- Barangay Tukanalipao in Mamasapano town has bounced back from a bloody incident on January 25, 2015 that dislocated local residents and shook the nation to its core.More than 50 people, 44 of them police Special Action Force commandos, perished that day as a consequence of an operation that first resulted in the death of Malaysian terrorist Zulkifli bin Hir, alias Marwan, and went haywire subsequently due to lack of coordination between the raiding troops and local Moro guerillas. Life is back to normal now.

COTABATO CITY ---The four senators who presided over the public hearing on the draft Bangsamoro Basic Law here Thursday assured stakeholders to see through its enactment into law within the year.Leaders of Moro, Lumad and Christian sectors took turns telling Senators Miguel Zubiri, JV Ejercito, Rissa Hontiveros and Sonny Angara during Thursday’s event their wish for the unimpeded passage of the proposed law.The draft BBL, crafted jointly by representatives of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the national government, is premised on two compacts reached by both sides after 17 years of ta