Tag: Highlands fighting
‘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...
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...
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...
5 suspects arrested as probe continues into killing of PNG Ports...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea police have arrested five men in Goroka over their alleged involvement in the killing of PNG...
Two more die in Hela fighting to take total to 9...
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby
Fresh fighting among candidates’ supporters has left another two dead in Hela’s Margarima in Papua New Guinea's general election.
This...