Bougainville
A probe into Bougainville's President has found Ishmael Toroama accepted an offer from an Indian company to cover the cost of his wife's life-saving kidney surgery before signing a lucrative mining de...
Papua New Guinea's autonomous region of Bougainville has moved a step closer ‌to possible independence as the Pacific nation's parliament prepared ‌to consider the results of a non-binding r...
Bougainville's government has accused Papua New Guinea's leaders of breaching a landmark agreement between the two parties following PNG's latest move against the autonomous region's vote for independ...
Main points:- The PNG parliamentary vote to grant Bougainville its sovereignty will require 75 per cent of MPs in favour- A two-thirds threshold is usually the requirement for constitutional amendment...
Traditional landowners are fighting back against plans to reopen an existing Bougainville copper mine which has remained dormant for nearly four decades.
The work and advocacy of Indigenous community leader Theonila Roka Matbob in working towards securing justice and a clean-up of the Panguna mine in Bougainville has been recognised with a 2026 Goldman...
In January last year, Havini Vira was overseeing a climate resilience agriculture project across Papua New Guinea. The three-year program funded by the United States was nearing completion with the di...
The latest authoritative government policy on Bougainville's richest commodity is shaping the region's next step towards independence from Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea appears set to grant Bougainville independence by June next year after their respective leaders discussed the details over a series of joint supervisory body meetings last week.
One year on from the release of an independent investigation into Rio Tinto's former Panguna mine in Bougainville, communities living with the ongoing environmental impact are calling on the company t...
The Autonomous Region of Bougainville's recent polls have handed its re-elected president a fresh mandate to pursue independence from Papua New Guinea.
The sole focus of Bougainville's leaders to secure independence from Papua New Guinea risks failing to improve the long-term wellbeing of its people, research warns.
Pacific police chiefs are scoping areas where additional assistance can be deployed as Australia helps scale up regional security responses by training local officers.