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(Photo courtesy of PDEA-BARMM / MANILA BULLETIN) Director Juvenal Azurin of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-BARMM) said the simultaneous operations yielded 1.5 kilos of suspected shabu, a pistol, and two vehicles. Azurin identified the first suspect as Romie Diamillah Hadji Alawi, who was arrested by PDEA agents and soldiers under the Marine Battalion Landing Team (MBLT-5) and Army’s 55th and 82nd Infantry Battalions in Baran...

Published March 3, 2021, 4:06 PM DAVAO CITY – Over half a million individuals signed a petition urging President Duterte to certify as urgent senate and house bills seeking to extend the transition period in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). As of 1:30 pm Wednesday, Mar. 3, the online petition launched by the Civil Society Organizations Movement for Moral Governance (CSO-MMG) and the Mindanao Peoples Caucus (MPC), has gathered 569,662 supporters. The petition was la...

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(photo from DOTr) Eje said the Department of Transportation (DOTr) hopes to operationalize the section between adjacent cities of Panabo and Carmen in Davao del Norte before the end of term of President Rodrigo R. Duterte, who will step down on June 30 next year. The “flat terrain” along the Panabo-Carmen line is a good launching pad for the highly-anticipated railway project, he said. The two cities are among eight identified areas in Davao Region where the government planned to build the...

Published February 26, 2021, 7:59 AM COTABATO CITY – The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is set to establish emergency operation centers (EOCs) in every province to effectively respond to the emergency needs of its constituents in far-flung communities across the region, an official said Thursday. (BARMM-READI via PNA / MANILA BULLETIN) Minister Naguib Sinarimbo of the Ministry of the Interior and Local Government in BARMM (MILG-BARMM) said the EOCs would be establishe...

(BOC / MANILA BULLETIN) Segundo Barte Jr., Bureau of Customs (BoC) Zamboanga City district collector, said 360 cases of imported cigarettes were found on F/B Princess Arlyn which was intercepted by NFWM multi-purpose attack craft (BA494). Barte said the smuggled cigarettes came from Indonesia and were supposed to be delivered to Cotabato City, the new market site for imported brands of cigarettes in Central Mindanao. The watercraft is owned by a certain Hadji Wari of Zamboanga and was manned by...

Philippines: Mindanao Displacement Dashboard, January 2021 - Issue No. 71 Format As of the 31st of January, a total number of** 52,062 families (236,525 **individuals) are currently displaced in Mindanao. Those displaced can be classified into three main groups, depending on the length of displacement: Group A: 1,001 families (5,007 individuals) remain displaced out of 1,729 families displaced within the month; Group B: 1,057 families (5,177 individuals) remain displaced, and have been protrac...

The following are among the abuses inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of January, 2021: Attacks on Apostates and Evangelists Uganda: A Muslim man beat his 13-week-pregnant wife, causing her to miscarriage, after he learned that she had converted to Christianity.  On Jan. 13, Mansitula Buliro, the 45-year-old woman in question and mother of seven, was preparing for Muslim evening prayers with her husband when she began to have Christian visions.  On the following day...

WASHINGTON – William Burns appeared to glide through his confirmation hearing to become CIA director on Wednesday, winning marquee endorsements and frothy support from senators in both parties. "I cant think of anybody that has the breadth of experience that youve had in the world," Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, told Burns at one point.  Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who has been a vocal critic of some CIA tactics, joked that the hearing risked "becoming a full-fledged bouquet throwing contest" as ...

Signal No. 1 has been raised over two areas in Mindanao as tropical storm Auring continues to intensify while moving westward slowly, PAGASA announced late Thursday night.In its 11 p.m. severe weather bulletin, the weather agency said Signal No. 1 has been raised over Davao Oriental and the eastern portion of Davao de Oro (Pantukan, Maragusan, Compostela, New Bataan).