BANGSAMORO NEWS UPDATES

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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ILIGAN CITY – To address issues facing the youth who are affected by the ongoing crisis in the Islamic City of Marawi, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao's (ARMM) Office on Bangsamoro Youth Affairs (OBYA), in coordination with the National Youth Commission (NYC), conducted a dialogue with youth sector representatives here on Saturday, July 1.About 100 youth leaders from different organizations in Marawi City shared the challenges and problems they are facing with suggestions on how to solve those problems.

COTABATO CITY --- Engineers are rushing the completion of a government center in Basilan as a conduit of various agencies to local folk and Abu Sayyaf members now returning to mainstream society.More than a hundred members of the Abu Sayyaf surrendered to authorities in the province in the past 18 months.They are now being organized into cooperatives while undergoing religious reorientation by moderate Muslim theologians.The P150 million worth facility in Barangay Santa Clara, Lamitan City will group together provincial branches of different agencies under the executive department of the Au

LANAO DEL SUR --- Muslim school children from Marawi City are now supplied with hot meal each day since last week by local and foreign benefactors, one of them a Christian humanitarian outfit.The feeding project is a common initiative of the Gawad Kalinga, the World Food Programme and the Department of Education-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.Organizers said it is meant to keep conflict-stricken children healthy while they proceed with their studies in Temporary Learning Spaces or TLS in campuses outside of Marawi City.The TLS are in tents erected in open spaces in campuses far from t

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