UN Human Rights Committee ruling covers cases involving 25 refugees who endured years of arbitrary detention.The Australian government violated a human rights treaty by detaining…
As clashes in Porgera Valley intensify, authorities allow police to use ‘lethal force’ to quell violence.Papua New Guinea has given police permission to use “lethal…
Tribal violence escalating with influx of mercenaries and automatic weapons into the strained island nation.A gang killed at least 26 men, women and children in…
Nearly five years after the islanders of remote Bougainville voted decisively in a referendum for independence from Papua New Guinea (PNG), local frustrations are rising…
West Indies beat PNG by five wickets thanks to a late surge in their opening game after the minnows gave them a scare. West Indies…
The UN’s migration agency says displaced residents urgently need clean water, purification tablets and food supplies. Papua New Guinea has ruled out finding more survivors…
Hopes are fading that an estimated 2,000 people buried by a landslide in Papua New Guinea’s Enga province will be found alive, a United Nations…
Two found alive as overnight rains raise fears tonnes of rubble covering the area could become dangerously unstable. A couple has been found alive three…
NewsFeedDrone video reveals the extent of the damage caused by a landslide in Papua New Guinea, which killed more than 670 people according to a…
Authorities are trying to establish evacuation centres on safer ground on either side of the massive swath of debris. The International Organization for Migration has…
Landslide blocked highway access to affected communities making helicopters the easiest way to reach the disaster zone. Rescue teams have arrived at the site of…
NewsFeedDozens of people are feared dead after a “massive” landslide swept through a village in northern Papua New Guinea early Friday morning, burying families and…
After losing her mother to liver cancer in 2019, Cecelia Kanawi knew that to break the cycle and avoid succumbing to lifestyle diseases, she had…
Petronela Nokenoke is now one of the best female boxers in Papua New Guinea, having won gold at last year's Pacific Games, but it hasn't…
LIAM Horne hopes to turn up the heat on the man who turned him into the player he is today, by making Castleford more like…
Mountain and coastal provinces have been flooded, with one coastal village considering relocating due to rising sea levels. At least 23 people have been killed…
Known across the country simply as "The Chief", Michael Somare was Papua New Guinea’s longest-serving leader after it became independent of Australia in 1975. He was Prime…
Police retrieve 64 bodies after fighting breaks out between rival tribes in Papua New Guinea’s northern highlands. At least 64 people have been killed in…