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Early results from South Africa's landmark election suggest the African National Congress (ANC) could lose its majority for the first time in 30 years. If the trend holds, the ANC may need to form coalitions to govern, a significant shift in the country's political landscape.
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape on Wednesday blamed extraordinary rainfall and changes to weather patterns for multiple disasters in the Pacific Island nation this year, including a... -May 28, 2024 at 11:21 pm EDT - MarketScreener
Families in Yambali village in Papua New Guinea were sleeping peacefully in their beds when a "mountain" of rubble buried them alive in a gigantic landslide, said a U.N. rescue worker at the disaster site and the country's prime minister. "It's basically a mountain that has fallen on their heads," said Mate Bagossy, who is with the United Nations Development Programme helping relief efforts in remote Yambali in the northern Enga Province. "Our people in that village went to sleep for the last time, not knowing they would breathe their last breath as they we...
Authorities are piecing together the scale of destruction and death toll from the devastating landslide which buried a village.
Thousands of residents were ordered to evacuate from the path of a still-active landslide in Papua New Guinea by the government on Tuesday, after parts of a mountain collapsed, burying an initial... -May 27, 2024 at 11:27 pm EDT - MarketScreener