Flash floods hit Maguindanao hospital; over 250 patients evacuated

Edwin Fernandez 09/20/2025

COTABATO CITY — Over 200 patients confined at Buluan District Hospital in Buluan, Maguindanao del Sur were evacuated to another building after flash floods hit the hospital on Thursday night (September 18) and Friday (September 19), officials…

Koronadal gun attack: Engineer dies, wife hurt

Edwin Fernandez 08/13/2025

KORONADAL CITY – Authorities have launched a citywide manhunt for two gunmen who shot and killed a civil engineer and injured his wife during a Wednesday morning gun attack inside Doña Lourdes Subdivision. Lt. Col. Peter Pinalgan Jr.,…

404 children of MILF members get educational aid

Edwin Fernandez 08/07/2025

COTABATO CITY – A total of 404 children of decommissioned Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) members received educational assistance on Wednesday, a key step in their reintegration into society. Each beneficiary received P25,000 in cash assistance under the…

Flood-hit areas in Mindanao need help

Edwin Fernandez, Gillian Villanueva 05/26/2025

COTABATO CITY, BARMM, Philippines — The Climate Conflict Action Asia (CCAA), a group monitoring conflict in Mindanao, warned of a “full-blown humanitarian crisis” in flood-hit areas in the Bangsamoro, particularly the Maguindanao provinces, if no actions were…

2 injured as blast rocks Maguindanao Sur town

Edwin Fernandez 05/11/2025

COTABATO CITY — An M-79 rifle grenade fired from a distance by still unidentified men left two persons injured in Barangay Poblacion Mother, Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao del Sur, around 8 p.m. on Saturday, May 10, police said. Lt. Col.…

General Santos City highway collision: 4 dead, 13 injured

Edwin Fernandez 02/17/2025

KORONADAL CITY — Four people were killed and 13 others were injured, including an 85-year-old woman and a 2-year-old girl, in a head-on collision between a private commuter van and a pick-up truck on the national highway in…

Kristine triggers flash floods in Central Mindanao

Edwin Fernandez 10/22/2024

COTABATO CITY — The torrential rains spawned by Tropical Storm Kristine over the past two days have triggered flashfloods in several areas in the provinces of Maguindanao del Sur, Maguindanao del Norte, and Sultan Kudarat, affecting thousands of…

Cotabato: Strong winds, heavy rains destroy 85 houses

Edwin Fernandez 03/30/2024

COTABATO CITY — In Cotabato province, heavy rains and strong winds that battered Kabacan town amid excruciating heat on Maundy Thursday left 85 houses destroyed, the local disaster office said. Kabacan Mayor Evangeline Pascua-Guzman said four villages…

Ramadan: Muslims start 30-day fasting

Edwin Fernandez, Taher Solaiman 03/13/2024

COTABATO CITY—The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) here celebrates the holy month of Ramadan, as its compound is beautifully lit up as practiced starting Tuesday evening. In Marawi City, the Mindanao State University added to…

Deluge of sardines delights, worries Sarangani folk

Edwin Fernandez 01/09/2024

KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, Philippines — Residents of a coastal village in Maasim town of Sarangani province described the deluge of sardines along some 2- to 4-kilometer stretch of shoreline in the area a “blessing from above”…

Courtship of Philippine eagle pair captured on film

Edwin Fernandez 11/15/2023

COTABATO CITY—Government wildlife conservationists documented last week the courtship of a pair of the national bird in the Cotabato province side of Mt. Apo, the country’s highest peak. Shirley Uy, protected area superintendent of the Mt. Apo…

Army uses truck-mounted howitzers vs IS terrorists in Maguindanao

Edwin Fernandez 03/26/2023

MIDSAYAP, Cotabato, Philippines – For the first time after being deployed in central Mindanao in October last year, the 155-mm Autonomous Truck Mounted Howitzers Systems (ATMOS) of the Army saw action in the pursuit of Islamic State-linked terrorists in…

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