Three dead, 1,000 homes destroyed in Papua New Guinea quake, Australian media report
Sydney, Australia Reuters Three people were killed and over 1,000 homes destroyed after a 6.7 magnitude earthquake hit Papua New Guinea on Sunday, local and Australian media reported on Monday. Sunday’s quake hit the remote East Sepik province in the north of the country at the depth of 65 kilometres, the German Research Center for […]
Papua New Guinea leader vows tough response after fighting kills dozens
Sydney, Australia Reuters Papua New Guinea will give arrest powers to its military amid an eruption of tribal violence in remote highlands that saw at least 26 men killed in an ambush, Prime Minister James Marape said late on Monday. Papua New Guinea’s police commissioner David Manning is travelling to the scene of the fighting […]
Updated: Dozens killed in tribal fighting in Papua New Guinea – ABC
Sydney, Australia Reuters Updated: 10:40pm (AEDT) Sydney, Australia Reuters At least 26 people were killed in tribal fighting in the northern highlands of Papua New Guinea, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) said on Monday, citing local police. The men were killed in an ambush in Enga Province, according to the Australian state broadcaster. A report by […]
Papua New Guinea declares state of emergency after 16 killed in rioting
Updated: 12pm, 12th January, 2024 (AEDT)Sydney, AustraliaReuters Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister declared a state of emergency on Thursday, suspending government and police officials after 16 people were killed in rioting in the Pacific island nation. A police and public sector protest on Wednesday over a pay cut that officials blamed on an administrative glitch descended […]
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Essay: PNG and Fiji were both facing COVID catastrophes. Why has one vaccine rollout surged and the other stalled?
IAN KEMISH, a former Australian High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea and now an adjunct professor at the The University of Queensland, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at how two Pacific nations have responded to the coronavirus pandemic…
Australia to stop controversial practice of asylum seeker detentions in PNG
Canberra, AustraliaReuters Australia will stop detaining asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea at the end of December, the two countries said on Wednesday, as Canberra shuts one of two remote Pacific detention centres that have been criticised by the United Nations. Under Australia’s hardline immigration policies, asylum seekers attempting to reach the country by boat […]
Australia considers diverting COVID-19 vaccines to PNG as “disaster” looms
Canberra, AustraliaReuters Australia is considering diverting COVID-19 inoculations from its vaccination program to Papua New Guinea where the coronavirus is threatening to unleash a humanitarian disaster, a government source said on Friday. PNG is due to get 588,000 doses of vaccine by June under the COVAX initiative to help poorer countries but doubts have arisen […]
Papua New Guinea orders restrictions as COVID-19 numbers climb
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Papua New Guinea will tighten internal border controls, restrict personal movement and enforce mask wearing in public from next week, as it confronts a steep rise in COVID-19 infections. The authorities in the Pacific island nation of nine million people also said they will ban mass gatherings, close schools and may order burials […]
COVID “tornado” hitting Papua New Guinea’s fragile hospitals, say health workers
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Rapidly increasing COVID-19 infections in hospitals in the Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea were hitting its fragile health system “like a tornado”, with services shutting as staff fall ill, health workers said on Wednesday. Australia said it would send 8,000 vaccines to its northern neighbour Papua New Guinea, responding to a […]