Bangsamoro

More than half of the deaths were recorded in the southern Bangsamoro region, mostly due to rain-triggered landslides, the national emergency service said, Reuters reported.
According to reports, more than 60 people are missing, while 69 are injured.

The death toll from a storm that battered the Philippines has jumped to 98, the national disaster agency said Monday, with little hope of finding survivors in the worst-hit areas.

Just over half of the fatalities were from a series of flash floods and landslides unleashed by Tropical Storm Nalgae, which destroyed villages on the southern island of Mindanao on Friday.

President Rodrigo Duterte received a draft law by the Moro rebel group on July 17, in an important step to broker peace in the southeast Asian country.        

Nearly 160 inmates escaped after suspected Muslim rebels attacked a jail in the southern Philippines before dawn on Jan. 4, and at least six people were shot dead as pursuing government forces traded fire with gunmen, officials said.

An international group looking at ways to help Turkey?s Kurdish ?solution process? has been visiting the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) to discuss the ongoing peace initiative between the government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu arrived in the Philippines on Nov. 17 and pledged Turkey’s full support for the Mindanao peace process, local media reported.

Davutoğlu promised to back the process that aims to end a decades-old armed conflict in the Muslim-majority south, Philippines broadcaster PTV News said.

A senior Turkish diplomat has been appointed as chair of a key intergovernmental body aimed at resolving a centuries-old conflict in the Philippines, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has announced.