Tag: Tribal fighting
PNG police chief Manning declares emergency for Porgera
The National
Papua New Guinea's Police Commissioner David Manning has declared emergency orders to safeguard infrastructure and residents in Porgera due to escalating law and...
20 dead – PNG women, girls flee tribal fighting in Porgera...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Women, girls, the elderly, and young boys have rushed to pack any vehicle they could as they escaped heavy...
Pope Francis calls for end to tribal ‘spiral of violence’ in...
Inside PNG
In his address to Papua New Guinea, the Sovereign Head of the Vatican and the Head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, called...
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...
Five arrested in connection with deadly Papua New Guinea massacre
By Grace Tinetali-Fiavaai, RNZ Pacific journalist
Papua New Guinea police have arrested five people in connection with the brutal attacks in Angoram district that left...
UN shocked over beheadings, burnt village in brutal PNG violence
RNZ Pacific and ABC
Violent attacks on three remote villages in Papua New Guinea's north have reportedly killed 26 people, including 16 children, while several...
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...
Journalists challenge PNG government over ‘media control’ policy
By Stephen Wright of BenarNews
The Papua New Guinea government’s push for news organisations to become its cheer-leading squad is under further scrutiny this week...
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...
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 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 police arrest 101 men in two-city crackdown after local killings
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea police in Madang and the National Capital District have arrested a total of 101 men suspected of being involved in...
‘Let your children live in peace’ plea by PNG’s Marape over...
RNZ Pacific
The Papua New Guinea government is calling for local communities in Porgera, Enga province, to end the violence as it works to reopen...
‘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...