Tag: Tribal fighting
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...
Outrage over killing of pregnant women, children among 22 dead in...
By Stefan Armbruster of SBS World News
VIDEO WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Papua New Guinea has responded with outrage over the killings of at least 22 people,...
Highlands security crisis hampers PNG quake response
By Johnny Blades of Radio NZ Pacific
An ongoing security crisis in Papua New Guinea's Hela province is preventing many earthquake-affected communities receiving relief.
February's magnitude...
