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BULUAN, Maguindanao - This is the first biomass power plant in Maguindanao expected to give 4.5 megawatt energy once fully operational.President Duterte led the launching of the plant Friday.

COTABATO CITY - A bloc of clerics on Friday announced they have assumed command of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters after unseating leaders loyal to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.The spokesman of the mysterious group, Abu Amir, told reporters Imam Bongos, and his subordinate-commanders, including their spokesman, Abu Misry Mama, have lost ascendancy to lead the BIFF due to their allegiance to ISIS.Amir on Thursday confirmed to the leading radio outfit in Cotabato City, the Catholic station dxMS, and to selected print journalists their takeover of the BIFF leadership through a l

BULUAN, Maguindanao--- Local officials are set to reassure President Rodrigo Duterte of their commitment to the Mindanao peace process during his first official sortie in the province today.
Maguindanao Gov. Esmael Mangudadatu on Thursday said security preparations are in place for Duterte’s first ever visit, as president, to Buluan, the capital of the province.

SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao -- The entire province of Maguindanao is a now filariasis-free, health official said. Thanks to massive campaign against the killer disease by Maguindanao Integrated Provincial Health Office, headed by Dr.

KORONADAL CITY--- New school, hanging cable footbridge, water system and community market
are just among the social infrastructure projects now being benefited by the
residents in the remote villages of Kalamansig, a coastal town of Sultan
Kudarat province.

Gemma
N. Rivera, assistant regional director of DSWD Region 12 said that the
projects, which completed with the collaborative efforts of the local
government unit and community-beneficiaries, are considered as most pressing
needs of town.

MAGUINDANAO --- A municipal mayor in Maguindanao survived an ambush at past 5and00 p.m Thursday while in a stretch of a national highway in Barangay Kibleg in North Upi town.Mayor Reynalbert Insular of South Upi, about 30 kilometers from the town proper of North Upi, was on his way home from Cotabato City, along with his security escorts, when gunmen, armed with assault rifles, fired at his vehicle.Members of the 5th Marine Battalion escorting the mayor managed to promptly return fire, forcing their ambushers, armed with M-14 and M-16 assault rifles, to scamper away.

TUPI, South Cotabato - A truck helper was killed while a driver of trailer truck was hurt after the heavy vehicle went wayward along the national highway here Wednesday afternoon.From Gen.

MAGUINDANAO – A 14-year-old girl was killed while hundreds of villagers got dislocated in a series of encounters between soldiers and the outlawed Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters on Wednesday.
The hostilities in Barangay Meta in Datu Unsay, Maguindanao erupted when BIFF bandits attacked a team from the Army’s 34th Infantry Battalion dispatched to check the reported presence in the area of a notorious member of the group, Daud Cansi, who is wanted for multiple murder and extortion.

COTABATO CITY --- Two public school teachers were killed while another was badly hurt in an ambush at about 4and00 p.m. Tuesday in a secluded barangay southeast of the city.
The fatalities, Fahara Kabuntalan La, 29, and Sittie Usop Abdullah, 31, died in the attack, which left their co-teacher, Aisah Karon Malugka, 34, badly wounded.A 21-year-old tricycle driver, Fahad Abdulwahid Abdullah, was also hurt in the shooting frenzy.

COTABATO CITY - The decades (century?)-old balite tree along Veterans Avenue here was toppled down after a fire weakened its foundation Tuesday.A mentally disturbedman has been cooking his food beside the tree. The 4 p.m.fire caught the tree's foundation and weakened it.Nobody was hurt among the motorists.The tree was located beside the fence of Cotabato City Central Pilot Elementary School and fronting the Veterans Federation of the Philippines Regional headquarters 12.