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Vanuatu - an island courted by the US and China - has been stranded offline for over a week.

China and Australia: The saga of vaccination in South Pacific Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.) China and Australia have started another battle, this time over the COVID-19 vaccination roll out in the South Pacific. In a lengthy article on July 2, China’s Global Times accused Australia of sabotaging China’s COVID-19 vaccination assistance scheme in Papua New Guinea (PNG) by planting “consultants” to manipulate local epidemic policies targeting China, blocking the approval of Chinese vaccine’s emergency use, and threatening senior government officials who were collaborat...

Papua New Guinea Covid-19: Mistrust fuels crisis as infections rise By Phil Mercer image captionExperts have warned that disinformation about Covid is spreading faster than the virus In the dense fog of Covid-19 misinformation in Papua New Guinea (PNG) lurk deeply embedded beliefs in witchcraft. As Australia's nearest neighbour battles with what experts say is an exponential surge in coronavirus cases, fears of unexplained deaths have had sinister consequences. Sanguma - a local word that refers to the occult - is common across the Pacific. It is a mostly benign tradition, but with a dark...

Mistrust fuels Papua New Guinea's Covid crisis In the dense fog of Covid-19 misinformation in Papua New Guinea (PNG) lurk deeply embedded beliefs in witchcraft. As Australia's nearest neighbour battles with what experts say is an exponential surge in coronavirus cases, fears of unexplained deaths have had sinister consequences. Sanguma - a local word that refers to the occult - is common across the Pacific. It is a mostly benign tradition, but with a darker side. "A couple of weeks ago, one of the health workers in a rural facility died of Covid and his wife and daughter were tortured beca...

Thursday, 22 Apr 2021 01:46 PM MYT File photo of Papua New Guinea's prime minister James Marape. — AFP pic Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. CANBERRA, April 22 — Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape survived another attempt to remove him from office when the speaker adjourned parliament for four months, the Guardian reported today, safeguarding his position until the next election. Marape was due to face a vote of no confidence this week but the government, citing a rampant Covid-19 outbreak, proposed an adjournment of parliament a...