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March 12, 2024
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea police in Eastern Highlands are investigating a bomb threat that was sent via an email to the Goroka courthouse yesterday morning. Goroka police station commander Chief Inspector Timothy Pomoso confirmed the incident and threat. According to information received by the PNG Post-Courier, the email from someone ... <a title="PNG police investigate bomb threat at Goroka courthouse in Highlands" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/png-police-investigate-bomb-threat-at-goroka-courthouse-in-highlands/" aria-label="Read more about PNG police investigate bomb threat at Goroka courthouse in Highlands">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Papua New Guinea’s rising voice as opposition candidate for prime minister, East Sepik Governor Allan Bird, has pushed back after addressing recent death threats. Bird told RNZ Pacific he has declined police protection and is opting to use his own security after his nomination as opposition candidate for ... <a title="PNG MP Allan Bird on death threats: ‘Picking on me isn’t a smart thing to do’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/png-mp-allan-bird-on-death-threats-picking-on-me-isnt-a-smart-thing-to-do/" aria-label="Read more about PNG MP Allan Bird on death threats: ‘Picking on me isn’t a smart thing to do’">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2024
By Bramo Tingkeo in Port Moresby A disturbing video has surfaced of a female, alleged to be a rape victim, attempting to jump out of the Kuri Dom Lecture Building at the University of Papua New Guinea. UPNG Students Representative Council (SRC) president Joel Rimbu has dispelled this allegation, saying that the female was not ... <a title="UPNG’s student body rejects rape allegations over campus video" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/04/upngs-student-body-rejects-rape-allegations-over-campus-video/" aria-label="Read more about UPNG’s student body rejects rape allegations over campus video">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2024
Warning: This story contains details that may be distressing to some readers. By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent As women and children seek hope of a future without tribal fighting, the cycle of killing continues in Papua New Guinea’s remote Highlands. Tribal warfare dating back generations is being ... <a title="‘Chopped boy with a bush knife’: A PNG massacre killer says revenge is ‘only way’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/02/chopped-boy-with-a-bush-knife-a-png-massacre-killer-says-revenge-is-only-way/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Chopped boy with a bush knife’: A PNG massacre killer says revenge is ‘only way’">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2024
By Evelyn Macairan in Manila Despite changing his citizenship to the Pacific state of Vanuatu, a Chinese man wanted for various economic crimes was arrested at Ninoy Aquino International Airport last week as he was about to board a flight for Singapore. In a statement yesterday, the Philippine Bureau of Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco said ... <a title="Philippines arrests Chinese fugitive who became Vanuatu citizen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/28/philippines-arrests-chinese-fugitive-who-became-vanuatu-citizen/" aria-label="Read more about Philippines arrests Chinese fugitive who became Vanuatu citizen">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2024
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby Prime Minister James Marape has commended Papua New Guinea’s police, defence force and the local community for their quick action in the release of an Australian pilot and two local workers who were kidnapped in the Highlands yesterday. The pilot of Hevilift and two locals were at Hela’s Mt ... <a title="Marape praises security forces in daring kidnap, says lawnessness has ‘destroyed’ PNG" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/27/marape-praises-security-forces-in-daring-kidnap-says-lawnessness-has-destroyed-png/" aria-label="Read more about Marape praises security forces in daring kidnap, says lawnessness has ‘destroyed’ PNG">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2024
PNG Post-Courier A kidnapped Australian pilot of a Hevilift helicopter and two Papua New Guinean subcontractors have been released in without harm following a rapid deployment of security forces. Security forces were mobilised and deployed in the Mt Sisa, a remote area near the border of Hela and Southern Highlands, in large numbers this afternoon ... <a title="Kidnapped Australian helicopter pilot, subcontractors set free in PNG" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/27/kidnapped-australian-helicopter-pilot-subcontractors-set-free-in-png/" aria-label="Read more about Kidnapped Australian helicopter pilot, subcontractors set free in PNG">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2024
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent, and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Women’s rights advocates in Papua New Guinea are calling for peace and for the men in Parliament to act against the violence in the country. The call comes following tribal fighting in Enga Province ended in a mass massacre at the weekend, ... <a title="‘National crisis’: PNG women demand MPs act against all forms of violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/23/national-crisis-png-women-demand-mps-act-against-all-forms-of-violence/" aria-label="Read more about ‘National crisis’: PNG women demand MPs act against all forms of violence">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2024
Papua New Guinea’s former opposition leader Belden Namah says Prime Minister James Marape never answered in detail the questions he asked in Parliament this week about the Enga massacre Namah, the Vanimo Green MP, said he was dissatisfied with the response Marape presented in Parliament yesterday as the death toll from the Wapenamanda killings rose ... <a title="Namah not happy with Marape’s reply over PNG ‘warlords’ question" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/22/namah-not-happy-with-marapes-reply-over-png-warlords-question/" aria-label="Read more about Namah not happy with Marape’s reply over PNG ‘warlords’ question">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2024
EDITORIAL: The PNG Post-Courier Some people are literally making a killing in Enga. Yes, they really are. Hired gunmen are getting rich by the day and picking up women and girls as payments as well, leaving deaths and destruction in their wake in what is apparently becoming a booming industry. PNG POST-COURIER The news is ... <a title="Post-Courier: Stop PNG’s booming death and destruction industry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/21/post-courier-stop-pngs-booming-death-and-destruction-industry/" aria-label="Read more about Post-Courier: Stop PNG’s booming death and destruction industry">Read more</a>
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February 20, 2024
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist A man housing people who fled a massacre in Papua New Guinea’s Enga province yesterday says pregnant mothers and children are displaced. More than 50 bodies have been retrieved, with police still searching as intertribal tension continues. Prime Minister James Marape said he was “deeply moved” and “very, very ... <a title="Wapenamanda massacre: ‘Pregnant mothers fled for their lives’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/20/wapenamanda-massacre-pregnant-mothers-fled-for-their-lives/" aria-label="Read more about Wapenamanda massacre: ‘Pregnant mothers fled for their lives’">Read more</a>
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February 20, 2024
By Miriam Zarriga Under the banana leaves on a roadside in Papua New Guinea’s Highlands lies the dismembered and bullet-riddled bodies of eight men. All have been pulled out from the hillside along the highway from Wapenamanda to Wabag in Enga province. They were among at least 64 people killed in the worst outbreak of ... <a title="Wapenamanda massacre – 64 killed in PNG’s worst tribal fighting" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/20/wapenamanda-massacre-64-killed-in-pngs-worst-tribal-fighting/" aria-label="Read more about Wapenamanda massacre – 64 killed in PNG’s worst tribal fighting">Read more</a>
