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Murad Ebrahim, Interim Chief Minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) and chair of another former Moro separatist group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) called for strengthened support behind Marcos and the Philippine government "to allow peace and civility to reign over the affairs of our land". [51]
Politics in the Philippines are governed by a three-branch system of government. The country is a democracy , with a president who is directly elected by the people and serves as both the head of state and the head of government .
The Philippines wins the Guinness World Record for the most participants in a simultaneous bamboo planting session, with 2,305 individuals participating across 19 locations in Leyte and Mindanao. [447] October 25 – Christine Opiaza finishes as first runner-up at Miss Grand International 2024 in Thailand. [448]
Michael Henry Yusingco, a lawyer and fellow at the Philippine Institute for Autonomy and Governance, called the situation a clear conflict of interest that could merit Mandanas’s suspension or ...
In the Philippines, security sector reform (SSR) is focused on "core security actors" that are allowed by the State to use violence in the performance of their mandates: most prominently the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Philippine National Police, and the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), but also the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA); the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI ...
The Philippine government also ordered a ban on travel to China, Hong Kong, and Macau until further notice. [48] On February 10, the ban was further extended to include Taiwan [49] but was lifted on February 15. [50] On February 14, the DOH announced that a risk assessment carried out to determine if Singapore would be placed under a travel ban ...
The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) is a task force organized by the government of the Philippines in 2018 as part of its "Whole-of-Nation approach" to respond to and raise awareness about ongoing communist armed conflicts in the Philippines, [1] [2] after the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte formally terminated peace talks between the ...
From 2018 to 2021, amid the economic recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, an estimated 2.3 million Filipinos fell into poverty; [40] this has been attributed in part to lockdowns enacted to control the spread of the disease [41] [40] [4] and possibly exacerbated by poor governance. [13] Poverty in the Philippines is a complex issue ...