カテゴリー: Bougainville
Archipelago’s flags replace Papua New Guinean ones on government buildings ahead of voting in referendumBougainville will head to the polls tomorrow to decide whether the region will seek independence from Papua New Guinea and become the world’s newest…
Bougainvilleans will vote in an independence referendum this weekend, the result of a unique Melanesian process of reconciliationThirty years ago Bougainville lost 20,000 people in a brutal civil war that lasted almost a decade.This week Bougainvillean…
It is a vote that has been 20 years in the making. On Saturday, residents of the remote archipelago in the Solomon Sea will start to decide their futureOn Saturday, the people of Bougainville – a small archipelago of islands flung 700km off the coast o…