Papua New Guinea security personnel have been authorized to use “lethal force” to quell violence between illegal miners and ...

Papua New Guinea’s Police Commissioner David Manning has declared emergency orders to safeguard infrastructure and residents ...

Days of tribal violence in Papua New Guinea's mountainous interior have left more than 35 people dead, a police official says ...

An Australian plan to improve policing in the Pacific deals with just one element of the islands’ crime and conflict problem ...

Landowners have warned they fear further deaths and violence at the Porgera gold mine if the Papua New Guinea government does ...

Tribal warfare near Barrick Gold‘s (TSX: ABX: NYSE: GOLD) Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea has escalated into a violent ...

Papua New Guinea has granted police emergency powers to quell spiralling violence in the Porgera Valley, blaming "illegal settlers" squatting near one of the country's largest gold mines.

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His call comes as locals call for police and security personnel to be deployed to villages and communities. Community leader Cressida Kuala said fighting had started near the mine site but had now ...

Encouragingly, the PNG police commissioner, David Manning, said in January this year that “police needed to start empowering community-based leaders.” Another high priority is bringing courts ...