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P2.7-M worth shabu seized from militiaman, barangay official
COTABATO CITY (Sunday, September 7, 2025) — Policemen had shot and wounded an uncooperative member of the Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Unit and arrested his accomplice after buying from them P2.7 million worth of shabu in an entrapment operation in Barangay Ampao in Bacolod-Kalawi, Lanao del Sur on Friday, September 6. Local executives and senior
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Defense secretary wants tight security for BARMM elections
COTABATO CITY (Sunday, September 7, 2025) — Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro had personally ordered military officials in Central Mindanao to do their best in helping the Commission on Elections ensure a safe and credible Bangsamoro parliamentary elections next month. Teodoro, officials of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division and the Navy’s 1st Marine Brigade met on
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MNLF founder pits candidates for BARMM parliament
COTABATO CITY (Sunday, September 7, 2025) — Followers from across Central Mindanao of Moro National Liberation Front founding chairman Nur Misuari commemorated in this city on Sunday, September 7, the 29th anniversary of the government-MNLF truce and together proclaimed their candidates for the Bangsamoro parliament during the October 13, 2025 regional polls. Negotiators of the
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Japan provides BARMM with costly engineering equipment
COTABATO CITY (Saturday, September 6, 2025) — Japan has provided the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao some P600 million worth of of heavy equipment for infrastructure development, calamity mitigation and disaster response operations in all of the five provinces and three cities under its jurisdiction. Japan had actively supported the tedious peace talks, which
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Big southern political bloc wants clean, safe BARMM polls
COTABATO CITY (Saturday, September 6, 2025) — A large bloc of local executives and sectoral leaders in the Bangsamoro region have reaffirmed commitment to Malacañang’s Mindanao peace process and promised support for multi-sector efforts to have peaceful and credible regional parliamentary elections on October 13, 2025. Members of the influential Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim
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Region 12 Cops seize P15.7-M worth smuggled cigarettes
COTABATO CITY (Friday, September 5, 2025) — Policemen seized P15.7 million worth of imported cigarettes in an anti-smuggling operation in Barangay Central Panatan in Pigcawayan, Cotabato on Thursday, September 4. The two van-type trucks carrying the cigarettes, produced in Indonesia, were intercepted at a stretch of a highway in Barangay Central Panatan by combined personnel
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8 more BIFF members surrender in Maguindanao del Sur
COTABATO CITY (Friday, September 5, 2025) — Eight more members of the now defunct Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters surrendered to the military in Barangay Kabengi in Datu Saudi Ampatuan on Thursday, September 4. Three of the eight BIFF members are experts in fabrication of improvised explosive devices that they rig with electronic blasting contraptions that
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187 poor villagers in BARMM town benefit from medical mission
COTABATO CITY (Thursday, September 4, 2025) — Up to 187 marginalized villagers in a newly-created Bangsamoro town in Cotabato province, covering barangays where government forces and Moro rebels figured in deadly clashes in past decades, benefitted from a multi-sector medical mission on Wednesday, September 3. Local executives in Ligawasan municipality told reporters on Thursday, September