Self-rule vote in restive region postponed


The government said it will postpone elections key to ending decades of sectarian bloodshed in a troubled region, with the pandemic and a stalling peace process blamed for the delay.

The vote was a key provision in a 2014 peace agreement aimed at ending a conflict estimated to have claimed 150,000 lives and was due to take place next May in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

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