BANGSAMORO NEWS UPDATES

COTABATO CITY --- The police today started deploying uniformed personnel in designated sites for Monday’s congregational Eid’l Adha outdoor prayers in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in anticipation of any attempt by radical groups to sabotage the event.
There are threats from the Abu Sayyaf to disrupt the Eid’l Adha celebration in certain areas in Basilan and Sulu.

COTABATO CITY --- The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) on Saturday appealed to state and non-state forces” fighting in Sulu to allow residents to freely move to safer areas for Monday’s congregational Eid’l Adha prayers.
By non-state forces, the ARMM's executive branch meant the Abu Sayyaf and sympathetic jihadist groups in Sulu that are subject of continuing military offensives for three weeks now.

MARAWI CITY – Authorities launched an orientation program meant to educate young Maranaws on the country’s drug problems, an initiative preceded by nine weeks of diplomatic maneuvers meant to convince users” to reform for good.

COTABATO CITY– About 4,000 families affected by intensified military operations against members of the Abu Sayyaf Group in the province of Sulu in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) received relief goods and medical assistance.ARMM regional Vice-Governor Haroun Alrashid Lucman Jr.

MAGUINDANAO -- Guerillas of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front on Thursday brought
to their camp in Sultan Kudarat town for spiritual orientation by clerics 40
drug dependents arrested in nearby villages.

The move, with
imprimatur from MILF’s figurehead, Al-Haj Murad Ebrahim, was in support of
President Rodrigo Duterte’s anti-narcotics campaign.

COTABATO CITY -- Organizers are expecting the impact of the October 19 to 20, 2016 international autonomy and federalism forum to reverberate through the country’s politically-dynamic south. Lawyer Benedicto Bacani, director of the foreign-assisted Institute for Autonomy and Governance (IAG), on Tuesday said foreign experts on autonomy and federalism shall talk one after another during the two-day activity in Makati City.The IAG is Central Mindanao’s most popular peace-advocacy entity, being assisted by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) of Germany.

Malacañang declares September 12 (Monday) a holiday in celebration of Eid'l Adha.

COTABATO CITY --- The security council of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) recommended the setting up of a special court and enlistment of non-resident prosecutors to handle high-profile cases involving large criminal gangs and terrorists.ARMM Gov.

MARAWI CITY -- Government teachers here were elated with the Supreme Court’s termination from service of their overstaying superintendent whose illegal three-year stint caused them serious administrative and fiscal woes.Mona Macatanong, who turned 65 on October 18, 2013, ignored orders from the education department of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao to vacate her post, causing troubles that affected the performance of teachers and caused backlogs in activities of local schools.Irate teachers on Friday urged President Rodrigo Duterte to focus on the reluctance of the office of the C

COTABATO CITY --- The High Tribunal upheld with finality a court ruling that the overstaying Marawi City schools superintendent has reached the mandatory retirement age.The recalcitrant education official, Mona Macatanong, had earlier sued officials of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) for replacing her after she turned 65 on October 18, 2013.Macatanong, an ethnic Maranaw, had insisted that the date of birth indicated in the government personal data sheet she filled out when she first applied as a public teacher was erroneous, short of about two years.Macatanong, backed by som