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ARMM forms internal task force for Marawi recovery

ILIGAN CITY– The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) has established ‘Internal Task Force Bangon Marawi’ to ensure proper coordination and implementation of programs and projects in Marawi City after the current crisis is over.ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman, through Memorandum Order 444 that he signed on July 5, created the task force following Administrative Order (AO) 3 of President Rodrigo Duterte creating the Task Force Bangon Marawi for recovery, reconstruction, and rehabilitation of Marawi City and other localities in Lanao del Sur.

Diaper donation drive for babies in evacuation centers continues

COTABATO CITY– About 80,000 cloth and disposable diapers have been distributed to lactating mothers as part of the continuing humanitarian assistance to affected residents in Marawi City.The recipients are nursing mothers currently in evacuation centers as well as those staying in their relatives’ houses.

Sultan to help quell violent extremism in Maguindanao

MAGUINDANAO --- Moro leaders installed Wednesday a sultan to sustain traditions preserving Islamic principles on religious tolerance and universal love that violent religious extremists (VREs) rabidly oppose.The Police Regional Office-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and the Army’s 6thInfantry Division immediately pledged assistance to the initiative, to be led jointly by the now Sultan Mohamad Kuso Kanebpal Mangudadatu and the Maguindanao provincial peace and order council.Now named Sultan Tambilawan II sa Buayan, Mangudadatu, a descendant of Shariff Kabunsuan, a 14thcentury blue-blood

Duterteand Marawi crisis over in 10-15 days

MANILA -- President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday said the Marawi conflict could end in 10 to 15 days.In his speech during the 10th listing anniversary of the Phoenix Petroleum Philippines, Inc. at the Philippine Stock Exchange in Makati City, the President likewise expressed his resolve to visit Marawi City before the fighting ends. So ‘yan ang ano ko. I hope that things can… I need about 15 more days, Duterte said.He said the effort to clear Marawi of remaining militants is hampered by the apparent number of arms and ammunition that the terrorist have stockpiled.

Abu Sayyaf opposes costly Basilan Transcentral Road project

COTABATO CITY --- The July 5 beheading in Basilan of two Vietnamese by the Abu Sayyaf was partly a vengeful rage against a highway project that will make their only bastion now in the province accessible to the military, officials said Saturday.The decapitated cadavers of Hoang Trung Thong and Hoang Van Hai were dumped by their captors along a road in Limbo Tulan area in Barangay Tumahubong in Sumisip town in Basilan, a strategic spot where the P1 billion-worth Basilan Transcentral Road would soon cut through.The construction of the 55-kilometer Transcentral Road is a joint high-ticket proj

Turkey will help ARMM feed school children from Marawi City

LANAO DEL SUR -- The Turkish government will help
feed school children from Marawi City now pursuing elementary studies in
temporary learning spaces (TLS) in safe areas.

John Magno, regional secretary of the Department of
Education-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DepEd-ARMM), said Friday the
Turk Isbirligi Ve Koordinasyon Idaresi Baskanligi (TIKA) will help them expand
their feeding program for children in TLS facilities that were launched last
month.

TIKA is most known as the Turkish Cooperation and
Coordination Agency.

Local execs seek reprieve from controversial Napolcom order

LANAO DEL SUR ---- Local officials are apprehensive the suspension of their control over municipal police offices will embolden outcast militants to expand recruitment of prospective jihadists in their turfs.Mayors in Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur on Thursday said the Resolutions 2017-334 and 2017-335 of the National Police Commission, which stripped them of function to oversee municipal police forces, could be a serious transgression of the Local Government Code.The code, also known as Republic Act 7160, empowers mayors and provincial governors to exhaust all legal means, as provided for b

More drugs found by PDEA agents in troubled Marawi City

MARAWI CITY -- Anti-narcotics agents recovered P375,000 worth more of shabu and two packs of cocaine in a building in Marawi City soldiers have just cleared from occupation by Maute terrorists.Juvenal Azurin, director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-ARMM), said Tuesday that besides shabu, agents also found inside the building two small plastic packs containing white powdery substance that resembled cocaine.

ARMM inaugurates road leading to Bongao peak

BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi– Residents of Simunul, as well as visitors, stand to benefit from a new access road, which is part of an P80-million infrastructure package, in Brgy. Tubig-Indangan. The road leads to the Sheikh Karimul Makhdum Mosque, a national historical and tourism site.Governor Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) led the inauguration of the access road on Monday, July 3.Included in the project’s P80-million budget is the improvement of Sheikh Karimul Makdum Mosque and the Sheikh Makdum Cultural Center.

Day 42and Images of Marawi

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