Tag: Enga
New Zealand holds out hope for halted PNG electrification aid project
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor
The New Zealand government says it hopes an electrification aid project that was halted in Papua New Guinea...
NZ pulls plug on $6.7m power project in Papua New Guinea...
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor
A New Zealand aid project in Papua New Guinea has been halted due to security concerns, and appears...
Leaders of PNG’s Enga province plagued by violence – vow to...
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor
Political leaders in a Papua New Guinea province plagued by gun violence are making a collective stand to...
PNG’s lethal Tsak Valley raid and deeper crisis over guns, policing,...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
A Papua New Guinea police operation in Tsak Valley, Enga Province, in the early hours of...
Evicted PNG settlement fears collective punishment over gang rape and killing
By Harlyne Joku and BenarNews staff
Residents of an informal Port Moresby settlement that was razed following the gang rape and murder of a woman...
PNG bus shooting: ‘This sort of revenge killing is unheard of’
By Grace Tinetali-Fiavaai, RNZ Pacific journalist
Papua New Guinea police say 10 people have been tragically killed after a series of violent "revenge killings" along...
Deadly bus ambush in PNG’s Enga province kills, wounds many
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
A deadly ambush unfolded in Enga province between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. last night, leaving multiple people dead...
From bows and arrows to assault rifles: How the rules of...
Warning: This report discusses graphic details of tribal violence in Papua New Guinea.
SPECIAL REPORT: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
The nauseating stench of...
PNG ‘politicians, pastors’ supply weapons to fuel deadly tribal fights, says...
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
National politicians and pastors are fuelling the tribal fighting in Papua New Guinea by supplying guns and ammunition, says...
12 reportedly dead after tribal clashes near PNG landslide in Enga
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape visited Wabag, the capital of Enga province, to meet authorities before...
PNG landslide buried ‘more than 2000 people alive’: Rescue teams navigate...
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
More than 2000 people were buried alive in the huge landslide which hit Papua New Guinea on Friday,...
PNG landslide: Couple pulled alive from rubble as 690 feared dead
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
Amidst the despair of the Kaolokam landslide disaster in the Enga Province of Papua New Guinea, there was...
PNG landslide: Survivors of highlands disaster desperately seeking help
RNZ Pacific
The survivors of a massive landslide in a remote village in Papua New Guinea's highlands are still waiting for official help, more than...
Local officials fear fate of 300 missing people in remote PNG...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
The United States has said it is “ready to lend a helping hand” to the people of Mulitaka, Enga...
Hundreds feared dead after huge landslide in Papua New Guinea
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
Scores of people have died in a huge landslide which has struck a remote village in the Papua...
Enga ‘isn’t that bad’, says Australian diplomat on troubled area visit
PNG Post-Courier
The Australian High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea, John Feakes, has become the first foreign diplomat to visit the "valley of tears" in...
Pivotal role of PNG’s village courts in curbing sorcery violence
RNZ PACIFIC Q&A: By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
In Papua New Guinea, sorcery accusation-related violence (SARV) remains a significant form of violence across...
‘Only one meal per day’ – 20 die in PNG Highlands...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
Food rationing is underway in remote areas in Papua New Guinea's Highlands following torrential rain and flash flooding.
More than...
Young woman found dead with face skinned in Enga in spite...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Despite a "historic" ceasefire agreement in Papua New Guinea between Enga authorities and tribal leaders after months of bitter...
Talks herald Wapenamanda massacre ceasefire in PNG tribal warfare
PNG Post-Courier
A ceasefire is expected on the battlefields of Wapenamanda in Papua New Guinea's Enga Province that has claimed hundreds of lives and caused...
‘Chopped boy with a bush knife’: A PNG massacre killer says...
Warning: This story contains details that may be distressing to some readers.
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
As...
‘National crisis’: PNG women demand MPs act against all forms of...
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent, and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
Women's rights advocates in Papua New Guinea are calling for peace and...


































