Tag: Tribal fighting
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...
Porgera mine ‘killing fields’ – 21 Papua New Guineans die since...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
The successful restart of Papua New Guinea's New Porgera Limited gold mine is currently at high risk due to...
‘Frightening to see such violence’ in tribal war on PNG’s Kiriwina...
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby
At least 32 people have been killed in an all-out war between Kulumata and Kuboma tribes in Milne Bay’s...
PNG official confirms more than 30 dead in tribal clash in...
By Finau Fonua and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalists
More than 30 people have been confirmed dead by Papua New Guinea government official Nelson Tauyuwada...
30 killed, many injured in PNG ‘island of love’ tribal massacre
PNG Post-Courier
Thirty people are reported to have been killed and many seriously injured in the worst tribal warfare on Kiriwina Island in Papua New...
When will enough be enough? Port Moresby’s struggle with ethnic war
SPECIAL REPORT: By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Port Moresby’s "amazing city" tag in Papua New Guinea is fast losing its varnish and appeal --...
Slaughter goes on in Porgera mining town as PNG police plan...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
While Papua New Guinean policing continues to be an issue in Porgera, Enga Province, the killings continue in the...
Porgera villagers helpless, unsafe in their homes as ‘warlords’ kill freely
By Melisha Yafoi of the PNG Post-Courier
“It’s okay, we'll just sit here and they can come kill us.”
These chilling words are from a defenceless...
18 people hacked to death in Porgera in under an hour...
By Miriam Zarriga of the PNG Post-Courier
A brutal massacre in Porgera town yesterday afternoon in which 18 innocent people were killed has rocked Enga...
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...
100 PNG security forces arrive in Porgera, tension eases
By Miriam Zarriga in Mt Hagen
About 100 Papua New Guinea security personnel have arrived in Porgera, Enga Province, amid the fighting that saw 17...
Fierce fighting continues in PNG’s Porgera with death toll reaching 17
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Seventeen people have been killed, hundreds of families made homeless, dozens of houses razed and government services ground to...
The bleak and black covid year that shook Papua New Guinea...
ANALYSIS: By Patrick Levo in Port Moresby
In all of the meandering years in the life of Papua New Guinea, 2021, which ended on Friday...
Highlands tribal fighting in PNG – Scott Waide backgrounds the conflict
Scott Waide's EMTV News report.
Pacific Media Watch
Three children were among ten people killed in a brutal attack in Porgera in Papua New Guinea's Highlands...
Three PNG children die among 10 killed in Porgera massacre
By Ale Asa in Porgera
Ten people – including three children – have been massacred when a fight between two warring tribes from Tari spilled...
Bryan Kramer: PNG ‘merciless’ payback killings have changed everything
COMMENTARY: By Bryan Kramer in Port Moresby
Yesterday, I returned from Tari Electorate in Hela Province following a one day trip to assess the situation...
Women who died in PNG’s Karida massacre were community ‘anchors’
SPECIAL REPORT: By Scott Waide in Karida, Papua New Guinea
On Wednesday, some of the bodies of 18 women and children in Papua New Guinea...
Karida massacre victims buried as other PNG villagers flee in fear
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The bodies of the Karida village massacre victims in Papua New Guinea's Hela province have been buried as fearful villagers in...