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The socioeconomic impact assessment of COVID-19 on the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Format EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has not only created an unprecedented health crisis but triggered serious economic downturns globally. The Philippines has not been spared and the effects are felt in all its regions, including the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). BARMM is still a region in transition towards establishing a fully autonomous po...

(NHCP) Former National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) executive director and former mayor of Cotabato City Ludovic Deles Badoy passed away at 69 on Sunday, April 18, 2021. In a statement released by the NHCP, his demise was “due to acute respiratory failure, among other complications, secondary to COVID-19.” From 1986 to 1998, Ludovic served the City of Cotabato as mayor, wherein throughout his term, he has made the city “peaceful, orderly, clean, and vibrant,” as Depar...

Philippines: Mindanao Displacement Dashboard, February - Issue No. 78 Format DISPLACEMENT OVERVIEW As of the 28th of February, a total number of 51,275 families (232,643 individuals) are currently displaced in Mindanao. Those displaced can be classified into three main groups, depending on the length of displacement: Group A: 1,000 families (4,894 individuals) remain displaced out of 57,646 families displaced within the month; Group B: 667 families (3,092 individuals) remain displaced, and have...

With Johannus organ truely and greatly expensive One of a kind a church with 3 calconies. In a time of great religious recession, the Church of Christ continues to erect magnificent houses of worship on the same level of splendor as ancient the cathedrals of old. Modernized and one of most beautiful church owned by INC today! The magnificient house of worship in Capitol QC is undeniably one of the proofs that despite the worldwide economic crisis and Religious recession the Iglesia ni Cristo co...

What’s new? Two years into a three-year transition, the “normalisation” process that aims to disarm ex-rebels and pay peace dividends to the Philippines’ Bangsamoro region is behind schedule, partly because of COVID-19. Manila has recently taken steps to restore the momentum, but time is of the essence. Why does it matter? Normalisation has several essential components, including supplying socio-economic support, deploying peacekeeping teams to boost conflict mitigation efforts and ...

(Photo by WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP / FILE PHOTO) This was confirmed by Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Chairman J. Prospero De Vera III over a radio interview on Wednesday, April 14. “It’s better if we have more vaccination facilities,” he explained in Filipino. To date, De Vera said that a total of 17 colleges and universities have agreed to have their facilities used as COVID-19 vaccination sites. Majority of these are located in the Nationa...

30 Apr 2021 TERMS OF REFERENCE of the EU Expert on Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in the International Monitoring Team 1. BACKGROUND In recognition of its support in advocating dialogue, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and Government of the Philippines (GPH) ("the Parties") invited the European Union (EU) to take part in the International Monitoring Team (IMT) with a letter on 9 December 2009. In that regard, the EU has fielded one EU Expert to lead the IMT’s Humanit...

Mark Navales/BenarNews The Muslim holy month of Ramadan began on a violent note in the southern Philippines where authorities mounted a deadly raid on a suspected pro-Islamic State bomber’s hideout and a family of three was killed in an ambush, officials said Wednesday. Police were dispatched to Datu Salibo town in Maguindanao province to arrest Abu Naim, a member of the IS-linked Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) who was implicated in a series of bombings in the regio...

(JANSEN ROMERO / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) This, after PAL Spokesperson Cielo Villaluna bared that they were recently able to prevent boarding of at least 15 individuals after they presented fake COVID-19 negative test results at airport check-in counters. The prospective passengers who were caught in Manila were bound for destinations such as Cotabato, Dipolog, and Zamboanga. They have been turned over to the Philippine National Police (PNP). Villaluna said most of the passengers were refe...

Farmers in the town of Lake Sebu recently received P2 million worth of farming facilities from the local government unit (LGU) of South Cotabato, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said.