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Share the News Northern Governor, Gary Juffa has applauded the swift action of the Conservation Environmental Protection Authority for suspending the logging licenses of two companies illegally operating in Collingwood Bay, Tufi. Governor Juffa stated that the companies currently operating there were doing so with illegal permits and licenses procured fraudulently given that all applications for various permits and licenses were null and void given that the vital documents appended with the applications contained the forged signatures of the Chairman of the Oro Provincial Forest Management Co...

A video recently surfaced on social media in Papua New Guinea, featuring a group of about 20 men, gathered around their apparent leader, declaring war on Indonesia. “People of East Sepik,” the leader says, referring to one of the two provinces which stretch along PNG’s northern coastline towards the border with Indonesia, “on behalf of the citizens of Papua New Guinea, we are now standing here to declare that we are ready to go and fight against Indonesian soldiers, for helping our people of West Papua.” Indonesia, he goes on, is a “thief” for illegally occupying indigenous land...

Coronavirus crisis spirals out of control in Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (PNG), the Pacific’s largest and most populous country, and one of the world’s most impoverished, is experiencing an uncontrolled coronavirus outbreak after appearing to have avoided large numbers of infections during 2020. The source of the new wave has not been identified. Hundreds of cases in the past few days have taken the national total to 2,226 and 26 reported deaths, with the capital Port Moresby the worst hit. This represents a sharp surge since the end of February when 1,316 COVID-19 and 13 COVID-19 d...

Michael Kabuni 15 March, 2021, 7:00 pm Donations to Port Moresby General Hospital delivered by Police Commissioner David Manning after a public appeal. Picture: Facebook/POMGH A YEAR after the first COVID-19 case was reported in Papua New Guinea, the first week of March 2021 has seen the highest weekly increase in reported cases in the country. This blog summarises the situation in PNG, and the risks that lie ahead in tackling the outbreak. The situation According to PNG’s Health Situation Report #63, between March 1-7, 2021, 357 new COVID-19 cases were reported, bringing the total to 1670...

Papua New Guinea (PNG) is facing an exponential increase in the spread of COVID-19, with country-wide reports of community transmission and large numbers of hospital workers and patients being diagnosed with the virus. PNG’s Joint Agency Task Force reported 1,741 cases and 21 deaths as of March 9 – nearly double the number of cases reported one month earlier and more than double the deaths reported two weeks earlier. Experts worry the numbers are just the tip of the iceberg because PNG has the sixth-lowest COVID-19 testing rate in the world. Only 5,240 per million people in the country ha...