Tag: Southern Highlands

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 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...

By Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor Papua New Guinea's police commissioner David Manning says a man allegedly involved in the kidnapping of 17 girls...

By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist, and Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent A woman who was part of a group kidnapped in Papua...

RNZ Pacific Reports from Papua New Guinea say that 17 girls from a remote village have been held captive by a large group of armed...

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's Internal Security Minister Peter Tsiamalili Jr says the Royal PNG Constabulary is "stretched" with only 5000...

PNG Post-Courier A recent cash payment by Papua New Guinea for the release of three hostages held captive by armed gunmen in Southern Highlands province...

NBC News Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape has revealed that about K100,000 (about NZ$46,000) was paid to the kidnappers for the release of...

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby The look on the faces of their families said it all, as they cried awaiting anxiously for their loved...

RNZ Pacific A New Zealand professor and his two Papua New Guinean colleagues have been released from captivity, more than a week after being kidnapped...

By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby Prime Minister James Marape has urged armed captors to free the remaining four hostages which includes an Australian-based New...

The National in Port Moresby Warlords and armed bandits pose a threat to Papua New Guinea's national security and must be destroyed, says Deputy Opposition...

PNG Post-Courier As day five dawned in Papua New Guinea's kidnapping drama, the family of one of the four hostages captives -- one of three...

PNG Post-Courier The Post-Courier has exclusively been advised of the release of one of the women held captive by armed men in the Bosavi mountains,...

PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinean security forces have been authorised to use the full force of the law to secure the four captives being held...

PNG Post-Courier An Australian-based anthropology professor and three Papua New Guinean women researchers are being held captive inside the jungles of the Southern Highlands after...

PNG Post-Courier A Papua New Guinean businessman has been arrested and charged by police as the first of 15 "persons of interest" relating to post...

By Miriam Zarriga of the PNG Post-Courier in Port Moresby Four prominent Papua New Guinean political leaders are on the police radar for their alleged...

PNG Post-Courier The Southern Highlands capital -- Mendi -- has turned into a battlefield in Papua New Guinea this week as supporters of different candidates...

PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea's Electoral Commissioner Simon Sinai says he will seek a further extension from the Governor-General for the return of writ for...

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...

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Papua New Guinean security forces have intercepted and stopped seven trucks carrying seven containers containing sensitive election material in...