COTABATO CITY — Independent peace monitors appeared optimistic after the five-month hiatus between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and erstwhile rebel group Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) was broken, with the two parties slated to hold a special meeting on September 25 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The GPH and the MILF peace implementing panels (PIP) resumed talking on Tuesday, signing the “Declaration of Continuity of the Partnership between the GPH and the MILF in the Implementation of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB)” in Davao City. Presidential peace adviser Secretary Mel Senen Sarmiento, the new GPH PIP chairperson, and […]...Keep on reading: Peace monitors elated with Bangsamoro accord momentum