In the Southern Highlands, the political rivalry between sitting governor William Powi and his rival Joe Kobol played out in ...

Papua New Guinea surfed a sea of crises in 2024, including riots, increased violence, political instability and a flailing economy. While these challenges will continue to plague Papua New Guinea in ...

8, No. 4, SPECIAL VOLUME ON ‘SECURITY IN THE PACIFIC ARC’ (SUMMER 2012), pp. 47-60 (14 pages) Since independence in 1975 Papua New Guinea has enjoyed a generally benign external security environment, ...

This story appears in the February 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. She is lying in a cave, dying. Legs and arms but knobby sticks, Lidia Maiyu is curled up close to the campfire.

Papua New Guinea faced multiple crises in 2024 ... over 50 people were killed in an ambush in Enga Province as large-scale inter-group fighting continued in the highlands. In the Wapenamanda District ...

While Australia and China have very different approaches in PNG, both are in working primarily with political elites, while alienating the New Guinean public. An estimated 670 people died in the ...

The shocking tribal bloodshed is adding to a sense of a country in crisis. Details of the ... an American born in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea and founder of the Tribal Foundation NGO ...

An Australian helicopter pilot and two other workers have been kidnapped in Papua New Guinea's highlands, the country's chief of police said on Monday. "We are focused on resolving this as soon as ...

SYDNEY, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Australia and Papua New Guinea said on Thursday they would ... in Sri Lanka covering its ongoing economic crisis. His reporting on Islamic State suicide bombings in ...