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Papua New Guinea Landslide: About 7,900 people from remote villages are being evacuated. Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea: It is now “very unlikely” that more victims of a deadly landslide in Papua New Guinea will be found alive, a UN official told AFP on Tuesday. “It is not a rescue mission, it is a recovery…
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People walk over the damaged Togoba Bridge, located on the road from Mount Hagen to the site of a landslide at Mulitaka village in the region of Maip Mulitaka, in Papua New Guinea’s Enga Province on May 28, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Thousands of residents were ordered to evacuate from the path of a…
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A vast smear of yellow and grey debris can be seen cutting through verdant bushland. Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea: Papua New Guinea moved to evacuate an estimated 7,900 people from remote villages near the site of a deadly landslide on Tuesday, as authorities warned of further slips. Some 2,000 people are already feared buried…
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Villagers search through a landslide in Pogera village, in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea on May 26, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Papua New Guinea informed the U.N. on May 27 that more than 2,000 people were buried in a massive landslide that swept over a remote village, according to a copy of the…
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Villagers search through a landslide in Pogera village, in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, on May 26, 2024. The International Organization for Migration feared Sunday the death toll from a massive landslide is much worse than what authorities initially estimated. | Photo Credit: AP The International Organization for Migration on May 26 increased its…
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Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape, left, listens during a meeting with Pacific Islands Forum leaders during the U.S.-Pacific Islands Forum Summit in the East Room of the White House on September 25, 2023, in Washington. | Photo Credit: AP Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape accused Joe Biden of disparaging the South…
Papua New Guinea has tried to shed outdated tropes that paint it as a wild nation full of cannibalism. Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea: Papua New Guinea’s leader has dismissed Joe Biden’s unlikely suggestion that his uncle was eaten by cannibals as “loose” talk that does not reflect the US president’s feelings for the country. …
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Locals standing on a road that was damaged by the recent landslip near Gumine Station, in the Chimbu Province of Papua New Guinea. | Photo Credit: AFP “At least five people were killed and an estimated 1,000 homes destroyed when a magnitude 6.9 earthquake rocked flood-stricken northern Papua New Guinea,” officials said on March 25…
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Earthquakes are common in Papua New Guinea (Representational) Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea: At least five people were killed and an estimated 1,000 homes destroyed when a magnitude 6.9 earthquake rocked flood-stricken northern Papua New Guinea, officials said Monday as disaster crews poured into the region. “So far, around 1,000 homes have been lost,” said…
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Leader of the Palinau Alliance signs the deal in the presence of the police in Port Moresby on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: AFP Warring tribes in Papua New Guinea negotiated a temporary ceasefire on March 13, agreeing to halt a spiralling series of revenge killings in the country’s remote highlands. Years of tit-for-tat fighting in…
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