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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani rival Imran Khan sent messages highlighting the need for “peace” Thursday after Modi’s hawkish party won a new term in power. While the nuclear-armed rivals launched cross-border air strikes at each other barely three months ago, some analysts say the return of Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in a new landslide could help peace prospects. Khan congratulated Modi on the win by the BJP, which has long […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte wished the country peace and prosperity as he marked his 74th birthday. Duterte made his wish known during the celebration of his birth anniversary a day before his actual birthday on Thursday, March 28. Former Special Assistant to the President Bong Go said Duterte celebrated with members of the Presidential Security Group and some of his aides in Davao. “My wish is that we will just continue to progress […]
(Eagle News) — Nagsama-sama ang iba’t ibang mga relihiyon, mga non-government organizations, Armed Forces of the Philippines, Philippine National Police, maging ang mga Muslim community sa Metro Manila at sa iba’t ibang panig ng bansa sa isang solidarity walk sa Quezon City. Dala ang kani-kanilang mga poster na may panawagan na iwaksi ang karahasan. Nanawagan ang mga ito na maiwasan at matapos na ang mga nangyayaring mga pag-atake ng mga terorista sa Mindanao. Kasunod ito […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte urged Cotabato residents to vote “yes” for the ratification of the Bangsamoro Organic Law on Friday, Jan. 18, three days before the scheduled plebiscite in the province. Also expected to participate in the BOL plebiscite on Jan. 21 are voters in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and Isabela City in Basilan. Residents of Lanao del Norte except Iligan City and six North Cotabato municipalities, on the other hand, […]
by Hazel Ward Agence France Presse OSLO, Norway (AFP) — Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi campaigner Nadia Murad won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work in fighting sexual violence in conflicts around the world. The pair won the award “for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict,” Nobel committee chairwoman Berit Reiss-Andersen said in an announcement which won international […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte met with Moro National Liberation Front chair Nur Misuari in Davao on Wednesday, Aug. 22. This is according to Special Assistant to the President Bong Go. Without elaborating, Go said Misuari and the President expressed hopes for a lasting peace in Mindanao. Duterte also met with Dante Ang, and Indonesian Ambassador Dr. Sinyo Harry Sarundajang, among others.
SULTAN KUDARAT, Maguindanao–Members or supporters of the Philippines’ largest Muslim rebel group gathered in their tens of thousands on Sunday to discuss the landmark Bangsamoro Organic Law granting them autonomy, with one expressing hope it would make their “dream of peace” a reality. President Rodrigo Duterte last week signed the law, a key step to ending a Muslim rebellion in the south that had claimed about 150,000 lives since the 1970s. Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) members, supporters […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, July 27, invited the Abu Sayyaf to talk peace instead, saying that war only resulted in deaths. “Ang problema, ang mahirapan ang mga bata, matanda, pati mga babae. Mag-iwan lang tayo ng maraming orphans. Maglaki ng walang tatay, hirap ang nanay,… Iyong Abu Sayyaf, mag-usap na lang tayo,” Duterte said. He asked Moros to give the Bangsamoro Organic Law, which he signed a day before, a chance. The President […]
by Charles Bouessel Agence France-Presse BERBERATI, Central African Republic (AFP) — “This road isn’t safe,” warns a UN soldier at the edge of a jungle where the latest militia to darken hopes for peace in the Central African Republic has surfaced. Huddled with assault rifles in a pickup truck that slides across the thick red mud, the Tanzanian peacekeepers keep watch on the Mambere-Kadei forest, home to a small but violent group that came […]
OSLO, Norway (AFP) – The traditional concert after the annual awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10 in Oslo will not be staged this year due to financial difficulties, the organisers said Tuesday. “There will be no Nobel Peace Prize concert” in 2018, said a statement from theNobel Institute, Warner Bros Norway and the Gyro Event company. “The decision emerges from a wish to re-think the concert format and content but also reflects […]
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AFP) — The two figures at the centre of the civil war that has ravaged South Sudan are scheduled to meet on Wednesday for the first time in nearly two years. Ethiopia, which has helped broker the meeting, says rebel leader Riek Machar, who fled South Sudan in July 2016, is expected to meet face-to-face with the country’s president, Salva Kiir. The official scope of the talks is broad — to build bridges […]
By Malou Francisco EBC Europe correspondent Eagle News Service BONN, Germany (Eagle News) — The former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai proposed ways of establishing lasting peace and stability in his country, making it a place of international cooperation and not confrontation. He made it clear that success can only happen if the Afghans are the ones truly in-charge of the peace process and their internal affairs. “Peace can come only when the United […]
