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Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama (right)
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Bougainville sets out full three-stage proposal for independence by 2030

Bougainville's Panguna mine . . .
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Young people celebrate Bougainville Patriotism Day
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Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama announces the caretaker Bougainville Executive Council (BEC)
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Bougainville president sworn in after landslide re-election, names caretaker government

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Polling was scheduled to begin yesterday but was pushed back a day to allow time to dispatch ballot papers
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Thousands of Bougainvilleans flocked to the polls on 23 November 2019 to vote in the referendum on independence from Papua New Guinea
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Bougainville 2025 election: What’s at stake?

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Incumbent Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama
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Bougainville’s President Ishmael Toroama candid and relaxed a week out from...

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Bougainville woman politician Elizabeth Tako Palin
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Iora Open MP Theonila Roka Matbob in central Bougainville
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Bougainville woman Cabinet minister battling nine men to hold her seat

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Former PNG national Parliament regional representative for Bougainville Joe Lera . . . "We will try to make big changes in addressing sustainable development"
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Veteran Bougainville politician wants new approach to independence and development

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Incumbent Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama
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Bougainville election: More than 400 candidates vie for parliament

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ABG House Speaker Simon Pentanu will has issued the writs for the fifth general elections in September
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Bougainville election process begins as writs issued for September poll

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The Autonomous Bougainville Government President Ishmael Toroama (left) and PNG Prime Minister James Marape
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June 28, 2025
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Papua New Guineans accused of sorcery are frequently beaten, tortured, and murdered
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Bougainville legal dept looking towards sorcery violence policy

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Bougainville President Ishamel Toroama speaking at the launch of the Bougainville Digital Democracy Project earlier this year
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Progress reported out of Bougainville independence talks at Burnham

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June 12, 2025
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Coverage of decolonisation in the Pacific, the lack of women's representation in parliaments
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Independent Pacific media face reckoning after US aid cuts

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People queue to vote in Bougainville’s independence referendum in 2019
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Bougainville takes the initiative in mediation over independence

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Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama (left) and PNG Prime Minister James Marape pictured in September 2024
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Bougainville president condemns ‘dangerous’ AI-generated fake video of scuffle with Marape

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People waiting to vote in Bougainville’s capital Buka during the referendum on independence in 2019
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Top Pacific diplomats ready for direct talks on Bougainville independence

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March 22, 2025
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PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) and Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama (right)
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PNG and Bougainville to hold more talks on independence issue

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The late Sir Julius Chan
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Former PNG army commander Jerry Singirok pays tribute to Sir Julius...

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The Pacific 2025 year ahead
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Theonila Roka Matbob, lead complainant
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Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
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