Latest News About Papua New Guinea Chiefs

Updated 2026-04-22 09:05

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Chief Ombudsman speaks to UPNG students, Gives update on Tkatchenko Issue and Defence Agreement Chief Ombudsman Richard Pagen and a team of senior officials met with the Students of the University of Papua New Guinea on 5 July 2023 at…

www.ombudsman.gov.pg

Papua New Guinea chiefs call for halt to plan for country's largest ever mine - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

17 June 2020 Chiefs from 28 *haus tambarans* – "spirit houses" – representing 78,000 people along Papua New Guinea's remote Sepik river have formally declared they want a proposal for the country's largest ever mine halted. … [...] Mine campaigner Emmanuel Peni told the Guardian PanAust had not been "honest or transparent" in its consultations with those who live in the Sepik river valley. [...] Peni, from Korogu village on the Sepik River, said the villages felt the need to make the...

www.business-humanrights.org

Prince Charles talks pidgin on Papa New Guinea tour

Britain’s Prince Charles delighted locals in Papua New Guinea with a brief address in pidgin after inspecting a military parade on Sunday, as he and wife Camilla conduct a jubilee tour of the Pacific.

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Two PMs and rival police chiefs leave Papua New Guinea in chaos

Papua New Guinea, the resource-rich, volatile Pacific nation to Australia's north, is entering a fourth day of political chaos today, with two men vying to run the police force, two men – each with his own cabinet – claiming to be the prime minister, and a governor-general dumped for taking sides. Armed police patrolled the capital, Port Moresby, yesterday amid fears of civil unrest in a city notorious for its "raskol" gangs. One of the police commissioners, Tom Kulunga, called for calm as a...

www.independent.co.uk