Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Fifteen years ago this week, the nasty little war on Bougainville officially ended. It was a ...

Fighting in the Bougainville-Papua New Guinea civil war officially ended in 1997, with the Peace Agreement signed in 2001, but many in the region continue to suffer severe trauma. Three academics from ...

Two former warring factions in Bougainville are using traditional conflict mediation techniques in bid to finally reconcile, nearly 2 decades after the civil war there ended. As many as 20 thousand ...

Analysis - Papua New Guinea's hesitation over Bougainville is not simply political delay or bureaucratic caution. It is rooted in something deeper: anxiety about identity, cohesion, and the survival ...

ARAWA, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, June 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Gutted buildings are left to decay in the tropical heat of Arawa, a town hit by battles during a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The South Pacific ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Eleven years after Papua New Guinea's Sandline crisis, former prime minister Julius Chan still refuses to apologise for calling in ...

SYDNEY, Nov 6 (Reuters) - An independence referendum in the Papua New Guinea (PNG) region of Bougainville will be peaceful and credible, the chief electoral official said on Wednesday, and it will ...

After a ten-year civil war, Bougainville is only beginning to recover: many essential services, like health care, are scarce and poorly maintained. A project is allowing women to have a stronger voice ...

SYDNEY, Australia -- The Pacific island of Bougainville is moving a step closer to potential independence from Papua New Guinea as preparations begin for a long-promised referendum later this year. It ...

An ongoing independence referendum does not address the key question at the root of the conflict: the future of the Panguna mine. Over 2,000 residents, including chiefs, elders, and politicians ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The South Pacific region of Bougainville voted overwhelmingly to become the world’s newest nation by gaining independence from Papua New Guinea, results showed Wednesday.