Tag: Enga
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...
Namah not happy with Marape’s reply over PNG ‘warlords’ question
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's former opposition leader Belden Namah says Prime Minister James Marape never answered in detail the questions...
Post-Courier: Stop PNG’s booming death and destruction industry
EDITORIAL: The PNG Post-Courier
Some people are literally making a killing in Enga.
Yes, they really are.
Hired gunmen are getting rich by the day and picking...
Wapenamanda massacre: PNG leaders angry over tribal war ‘barbarity’
By Gorethy Kenneth
Papua New Guinea’s image on the international stage took a battering yesterday when graphic images of dead bodies piled upon each other...
Wapenamanda massacre: ‘Pregnant mothers fled for their lives’
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
A man housing people who fled a massacre in Papua New Guinea's Enga province yesterday says pregnant mothers and...
Wapenamanda massacre – 50 killed in PNG’s worst tribal fighting
By Miriam Zarriga
Under the banana leaves on a roadside in Papua New Guinea's Highlands lies the dismembered and bullet-riddled bodies of eight men.
All have...
PNG deploys armoured vehicles to Enga in action against ‘domestic terrorism’
By Theophiles Singh in Port Moresby
Police Commissioner David Manning has warned Papua New Guinea's security force staff and partners not to let their guard...
PNG to upgrade Tribal Fights Act with life in jail for...
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guineans engaged in tribal fights will face life imprisonment once Parliament has its way with the amendment of the Tribal Fights...
PNG’s Marape condemns ‘jungle justice’ after 6 gunmen shot dead
By Cretilda Alokaka in Port Moresby
Six hired gunmen in Enga were shot dead by men from the Ambulin tribe on Friday in what Papua...
PNG opposition calls for emergency over Highlands naked body killings
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea's opposition has called on Prime Minister James Marape to immediately recall Parliament to address the escalating killings in the upper...
PNG’s police chief issues lethal force policy to protect against ‘domestic...
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea police officers have been issued with a Commissioner’s Circular on the approved use of force in the execution of their...
PNG seize big firearms stockpile, arrest 10 in Highlands blackmarket raid
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea police have arrested three men and seized a stockpile of unlicensed firearms, ammunition, explosives and other illegal items in a...
‘We’re outgunned,’ says local PNG police chief – ‘give us firepower’
SPECIAL REPORT: By Miriam Zarriga at Wapenamanda, Papua New Guinea
Standing in the middle of the countryside, the sound of heavy gunfire is loud and...
‘Her screams pierced our hearts, I knew I was going to...
By Rebecca Kuku of The National, Papua New Guinea
One of the survivors of a horrifying sorcery accusation-related violence (SARV) attack and torture of nine...
PNG police hunt for 15 Enga election suspects over ‘gun threats’
By Miriam Zarriga and Marjorie Finkeo of the PNG Post-Courier
Police are closing in on 15 candidates in Enga who allegedly used guns to threaten...
PNG police taskforce to hunt down 15 candidate suspects over Enga...
By Miriam Zarriga of the PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea's Police Commissioner David Manning has fired the first warning shot in the hunt for candidates...