MILF expects to sign accord on territory

 
Inquirer
Last updated 09:43pm (Mla time) 10/31/2007
 
CAMP DARAPANAN, SHARIFF Kabunsuan, Philippines — The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on Wednesday said it was expecting to sign a memorandum of agreement on territory with the government in December.
The issue was the biggest stumbling block to the signing of a peace agreement between the government and the Moro [...]

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Libya offers to host talks with MILF

 
Inquirer
Last updated 01:05am (Mla time) 10/25/2007
 
COTABATO CITY—Libya has offered to host peace negotiations between the Philippine government and the secessionist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
Libyan President Moammar Gadaffi was influential in the decision of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) to sign a peace agreement with the government in 1996.
Ambassador’s message
Eid Kabalu, MILF civil-military relations [...]

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Gov’t, MILF panels break talks deadlock

By Jeoffrey Maitem, Edwin Fernandez
Mindanao Bureau
Last updated 10:56pm (Mla time) 10/25/2007
 
COTABATO CITY—Government and Moro rebel negotiators managed to break the impasse in the peace negotiations following two days of informal talks in Kuala Lumpur, government and rebel sources said yesterday.
Eid Kabalu, civil-military affairs chief of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), said the panels had [...]

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Solar energy lights up remote Mindanao villages

 
By Edwin Fernandez, Jeoffrey Maitem
Mindanao Bureau
Last updated 11:30pm (Mla time) 10/09/2007
 
BULDON, SHARIFF KABUNSUAN–Nine-year-old Jamael Akmad’s life always began at 6 a.m. and ended at 6 p.m.
During the day, she spends most of her time in school. At home at night, she sleeps early and waits for the next sunrise.
“But now, life has changed,” she said.
Jamael’s [...]

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Top Mindanao Army officer says more JI men enter Sulu

 
Inquirer
Last updated 02:17am (Mla time) 10/12/2007
 
ZAMBOANGA CITY—The military yesterday said there are more Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) operatives, who have sought refuge in Sulu and nearby areas, than was previously thought.
Maj. Gen. Nelson Allaga, Western Mindanao Command chief, said these JI members are operating alongside the Abu Sayyaf.
“During the Tawi-tawi incident on Jan. 6, our forces [...]

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Ramadan ends peacefully and quietly

 
By Jeoffrey Maitem, Nash Maulana, Germelina Lacorte
Mindanao Bureau
Last updated 06:11pm (Mla time) 10/12/2007
 
COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Few Muslims fired firecrackers and weapons in the air as they marked the end of the month-long fasting at dawn Friday.
At the city hall and Cotabato City Central Pilot Elementary School grounds, thousands of Muslims convened around 6 a.m. [...]

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‘Amnesty centers’ for communist rebels set up in Mindanao

 
By Jeoffrey Maitem
Mindanao Bureau
Last updated 04:32pm (Mla time) 10/13/2007
 
COTABATO CITY — The government is setting up amnesty centers in rebel-infested areas in Central Mindanao as part of the Arroyo administration’s peace and reconciliation efforts, a regional police official said on Saturday.
Chief Superintendent Felizardo Serapio, Central Mindanao police director, said that the establishment of amnesty centers [...]

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Whodunit: ‘Terror group’ claims blast

 
By Arlyn dela Cruz, Nikko Dizon, Norman Bordadora
Inquirer
Last updated 01:38am (Mla time) 10/21/2007
 

MANILA, Philippines — The military yesterday said the bomb attack on the country’s premier financial district was a “terrorist act” regardless of who carried it out.

The military statement followed claims from someone supposedly representing the Rajah Solaiman Revolutionary Movement (RSRM) that the bombing [...]

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25 charged in Kidapawan bombings

 
By Edwin Fernandez, Jeoffrey Maitem, Charlie Sease
Mindanao Bureau
Last updated 05:29pm (Mla time) 10/20/2007
 
KIDAPAWAN CITY, North Cotabato — Authorities on Friday filed charges against 25 suspects in the October 5 twin bomb attacks here that left two people dead and over 30 others wounded.
Among those charged were Mohammad Nur Hassan and Macmod Manibpel, both identified with [...]

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Muslim body denounces Glorietta bombing

By Jeoffrey Maitem
Mindanao Bureau
Last updated 02:13pm (Mla time) 10/20/2007
 
COTABATO CITY, Philippines–The Darul Ifta (House of Opinion) in Mindanao, a collegial body of Islamic scholars and religious leaders, has condemned the perpetrators of Friday afternoon’s Glorietta bombing.
“The Muslim community in the Philippines condemns the bomb attack. It is the work of insane people,” Esmael Ebrahim, liaison [...]

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