Tag: riot
Pacific regional response to Solomons post-riots crisis takes shape
RNZ Pacific
Fiji is the latest regional country to announce it is sending security forces to Solomon Islands where major unrest rocked the capital.
Days of...
Solomon Islands: The painful reality – my day on the road...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Robert Iroga in Honiara
Honiara residents walked for long distances to find shops and ATMs today with fewer or nor public transport...
Solomon Islands riots: Wale calls for no confidence vote in ‘hiding’...
By Robert Iroga in Honiara
Solomon Islands opposition leader Matthew Wale has announced that he is filing a notice of a vote of no confidence...
Rioters, looters strike PNG cities as nation mourns death of Somare
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Rioters described by Papua New Guinea police as "opportunists" taking advantage of the death of Grand Chief Sir Michael...
Solomon Islands police remain on high alert in the wake of...
By Koroi Hawkins in Honiara
Police in Solomon Islands remain on high alert after Wednesday's riots which broke out across the capital Honiara shortly after...
‘Leave it up to Parliament,’ says USP academic in wake of...
By Rosalie Nongebatu, editor of Wansolwara
A Solomon Islands academic says the only body that can find a legitimate solution to his country’s current crisis...
30 arrested in Honiara post-election riots as calm returns to capital
Police say some people decided to take the law into their own hands and marched through some streets of the capital, fighting, causing public...
Mendi mayhem destroyed 42,000 vaccine shots for PNG children
By Sally Pokiton in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's mayhem in the Southern Highlands capital of Mendi earlier this month caused destruction of 42,000 vaccine...
Former military chief warns PNG soldiers could be ‘outgunned’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A former Papua New Guinea military commander has warned that he is "concerned, if not frightened" that the PNG Defence Force...
Mendi community leaders welcome emergency state in PNG ‘wake up call’
Southern Highlands community leaders talk about the post-election crisis in their province. Video: EMTV News
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Community leaders from the troubled Southern Highlands...
PNG opposition demands PM O’Neill resign over Mendi torching riot
Oro Governor Gary Juffa speaks during the Opposition demand for Prime Minister Peter O'Neill's resignation. Video: EMTV News
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's Opposition...
Two Mt Hagen high school students arrested in Highlands protest fallout
The EMTV News report yesterday about the Mt Hagen high school arrests following social media images of the police opening fire on students at...