In a statement marking the anniversary of the January 2024 “Black Wednesday” riots, Nomane emphasized pressing issues and ...

Tribal violence and claims of ‘cannibalism’ in Papua New Guinea have marked the start of 2025 for the Pacific nation as it ...

In the 1950s and 60s, her mother, the late Andrée Blouin, threw herself into the fight for a free Africa, mobilising the ...

Papua New Guinea's copper- and gold-rich Bougainville region is set to declare independence by 2027, eight years after a landslide vote to secede, its leader said Wednesday. The region -- home to ...

Bougainville must be able to fund at least half of its budget if the Pacific archipelago's aspiration of political independence from Papua New Guinea is to be a success, PNG Prime Minister James ...

A year later, he has not set the date yet. The dissolution followed victory by a coalition led by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), which won the majority in ...

At the time, Guinea was in the midst of a "political tempest", she wrote. France had promised the country independence, but also required Guineans to vote in a referendum on whether or not the ...

Bougainville voted for independence under a 2001 peace process in a referendum five years ago but PNG's parliament is yet to endorse it. A New Zealand mediator was recently appointed on the matter.