Papua New Guinea offers cash for guns as amnesty opens to combat escalating tribal violence

Weapons amnesty and buyback scheme will run until August as PM James Marape says illegal guns ‘destroying families and villages’ ...

Watch: James Marape says PNG must 'raise consciousness' about violence against women

The Papua New Guinean PM has warned the country's lawmakers that they cannot chest-beat as leaders if they are abusing their ...
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Papua New Guinea violence: Major oil and gas operator closely monitoring the situation

The ongoing violence and unrest in Papua New Guinea is not threatening oil and gas operations or staff at this point in time, but Australian operator Santos is monitoring the situation closely. There ...

PNG cannot safely store Australian-supplied rifles, military boss warns

Concerns have been raised about Papua New Guinea's ability to safely store a planned delivery of rifles from Australia, amid ...
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Papua New Guinea violence leaves between 20 and 50 people dead, UN official says

Bagossy did not have information on the numbers wounded. Papua New Guinea police did not respond to a request on Monday for tallies of dead and wounded in the valley. National Police Commissioner ...