Rival Muslim rebel factions will come together to craft a new law to implement a two-year-old agreement to end four decades of fighting in the south under a peace roadmap that was approved by President Rodrigo Duterte, his peace adviser said | ABS-CBN News
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Here's the transcript of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte's first SONA delivered at the Batasang Pambansa Complex, Quezon City on July 25, 2016.
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Top officials of the ARMM and mayors of three pilot towns in Sulu have signed a Memorandum of Agreement for the implementation of the “Apat Dapat” program, a poverty-alleviation initiative focusing on the region’s 600 poorest families | Manila Bulletin
Presidential peace adviser Jesus Dureza on Thursday welcomed as “positive” the convergence of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Moro National Liberation Front in putting closure to the Mindanao conflict | Philippine Star
The government and MILF will formally resume the Bangsamoro peace process with a meeting of the 10-member GPH-MILF Implementing Team in Kuala Lumpur in early August, Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus Dureza and MILF chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim said | MindaNews
Read more: GPH-MILF Implementing Team to meet in KL in early August