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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The southern Philippines once drew small numbers of foreign militants aligned with al-Qaida or the Islamic State group to train in a secessionist conflict involving minority ...
News Philippines » Muslim Mindanao » Security: BARMM parliament begins security plans for September polls
Members of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA), the legislative body of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), have begun planning security measures to ensure that the ...
News Philippines » Muslim Mindanao » Security: Philippines seeks peace with Muslim self-rule vote
A decades-long push to halt the violence that has claimed some 150,000 lives in the southern Philippines culminated Monday with a vote on giving the nation's Muslim minority greater control over the ...
News Philippines » Muslim Mindanao » Security: Filipino cardinal decries injustices against country’s Muslim minority
MANILA, Philippines – The first cardinal from the southern Philippines has decried what he describes as continued injustice against Muslim Filipinos who dominate part of this island group, which, for ...
News Philippines » Muslim Mindanao » Security: Election Delays and the Crisis of Confidence in the Bangsamoro Peace Process
The Bangsamoro peace process in the southern Philippines faces one of its most sensitive periods since the signing of the peace agreement in March 2014 between the Philippine government and the Moro ...
News Philippines » Muslim Mindanao » Security: Philippine president Marcos postpones elections in Muslim Mindanao to September
Regional elections for Muslim Filipinos have been postponed yet again after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr signed a new law ordering elections for officials for the newly created Bangsamoro Autonomous ...
News Philippines » Muslim Mindanao » Security: From ‘Moro wars’ to BARMM: Centuries of resistance and struggle for self-rule
Through the years, the Muslim struggle in the Philippines shifted from independence to autonomy. Shared histories coalesced into a collective identity, shaped as much by colonial pressures as by ...