投稿者: Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby
James Marape has said the adjournment was due to Covid-19. He was facing a challenge from former prime minister Peter O’NeillPapua New Guinea’s prime minister, James Marape, has adjourned parliament for four months, avoiding a vote of no confidence tha…
James Marape receives AstraZeneca Covid vaccine at Port Morseby football stadium to help combat misinformationPapua New Guinea has begun its rollout of the Covid vaccine with the first doses of the AstraZeneca shots supplied by Australia administered t…
Exhausted doctors warn sceptical patients that Covid is real as Port Moresby general reaches capacity The emergency department of the largest hospital in the capital of Papua New Guinea is hot, stuffy and full. People sit lined up outside the front cou…
Cases of coronavirus reached record highs on the weekend, as more than 120 hospital staff in Port Moresby hospital test positiveCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePapua New Guinea has reported a record number of Covid-19 cases …
Papua New Guinea has seen coronavirus cases skyrocket, with fears it could push the health system to breaking pointWhen Papua New Guinea recorded its first Covid case in March 2020, the country held its breath.There were acute fears about its on the co…
Services are being forced to close because of lack of money and staff as coronavirus threatens to take holdRead all our coronavirus coveragePapua New Guinea is battling to control a surge in coronavirus cases across the archipelago, just as hospitals a…
Land dispute in which 21 people died is the latest brutal conflict exacerbated by high-powered weapons, weak governance and erosion of traditional moresAt the height of the killing, women and children hid in the dense forests nearby or took shelter in …
Government has not been presented with widely reported $39bn plan for Daru Island in Torres StraitA Chinese-built multibillion-dollar city proposed for the tiny island of Daru in the Torres Strait is not being formally considered by the Papua New Guine…